352 FLIGHT. OCTOBER 8, 1.936.

Mr. Giles Guthrie and Mr. C. W. A. Scott. Above is their victorious Veg;
Connop Guthrie. A description of the machine and its
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Mr. I. W. Schlesinger, the donor of the £10,000 prize money. How C. W. A. Scott and Giles Guthrie (Vega
- He has generously suggested that the finishers' money which
will remain unclaimed should be paid to the dependants of Johannesburg Race : Tragedy Mars the Event's
Findlay and Morgan, who met with a fatal accident in
the race.
there was a serious outflow from the front of his engine.
Actually, it turned out t h a t the return valve in his oil tank

T W O d a y s , four hours a n d fifty-seven m i n u t e s after t h e

s t a r t a t P o r t s m o u t h A i r p o r t (fully described in
Flight last week) t h e Schlesinger African race had
been won by Mr. C. W . A. S c o t t a n d Mr. Giles
G u t h r i e in a Percival Vega Gull. T h e y covered 6,150
miles at an all in average of 116 m . p . h . a n d a t a flying
a v e r a g e of 156.3 m . p . h . W h e n Scott p u t down a t t h e
R a n d Airport, Germiston, t h e Vega Gull w a s one of t h e
only t w o m a c h i n e s definitely still in t h e race, a n d a few
h o u r s later t r a g e d y overtook t h e o t h e r — t h e Airspeed
E n v o y flown by F i n d l a y a n d Waller.
Meanwhile, the only remaining possible finishers, F / O .
Clouston (Miles Hawk Six) and Victor Smith (Miles Sparrow
Hawk), were held up respectively at Khartoum and Salonika.
The former was awaiting the arrival of a spare piston and
the latter had found, lhat his oil supply had dwindled and that
had been choked and t h a t his engine was, consequently, more
or less full of oil. Not unnaturally, the oil emerged from the
forward bearing. Eventually he pushed on to Khartoum, but
retired again there when he realised t h a t he could not pos-
sibly finish in time.
When F / O . Clouston took off again he had about two days
in which to cover the remainder of the course—a matter of
3,000 miles. He flew about 2,300 miles lo Entebbe and
Mtoko, where he landed owing to fuel shortage, and took off
again with bad weather ahead of him. He was overdue by
several hours on Saturday evening, and was eventually dis-
covered with his wrecked machine about 150 miles south of
Salisbury.

A refresher for Victor Smith at the turning point at Belgrade.

He retired his Sparrow Hawk at Khartoum after earlier
delays, though at one time it looked as though he might be
a finisher.