Interviewed. Scott said; "Neither of us got a wink of sleep during the trip. We had to be on the job all the time, We felt pretty well done during the run down from Charleville, but we feel a bit better now fand'we do thank the people here for the marvellous welcome given us all the way across Australia."
ing-Commander Cole,, Deputy Chairman of the London to Mel: bourne Race Committee, " said that Scott and Black had displayed truly' amazing pluck, endurance, deter mination, " and' unsurpassed skill pilots and navigators in the greatest race in the history of aviation. The victory was all' the more welcome, as they had flown a British machine powered by a British engine, "Telegrams congratulating Scott and Black on their fine feat were received by the victors from their Majesties, the King and Queen, the! British Prime Minister, Mr, Ramsay MacDonald, the Secreiary of State|' for the Dominions, Mr. J. H. Thomas, and the Marquess of Londonderr7, Minister, for Mr, Kennedy " Scott, father OWA. Scott, said in London that it was almost incredible that his son was 12000 miles away already. "It [silke going to another world," Mr, Scott de mut thank Heaven Like @ Nagle Carpet Black, said in London that sit seems Mrs. Black, mother of 7. Campbell
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