Schneider Trophy Photos

Hello SchneiderMan,
I have just seen your request of June 2009 for various photos relating to the Schneider Trophy contest. You may be interested to know that a new book is to be published within this month entitled ‘My Golden Flying Years’ which is the autobiography of Air Commodore D’Arcy Greig DFC AFC, which will contain many photographs from his personal photo album and not published before. It covers the period from him serving in the RFC up until his time with the High Speed Flight and the contest. For further details please PM me.

Spade Grip and Sotheby’s

I doubt very much if Sotheby’s would sell an item like that in the 1950’s as described. They certainly did not have ‘aviation’ sales as such, which were common in the 70’s 80’s and 90’s. I can’t see what type of sale that spadegrip would would appear in.

Thought that some members might like to see the logbook of F/O Robert Urquhart DFC KIA on the raid,the navigator on Z Zulu with Gibsons signature