JOHN WILLIAM ALCOCK (1892-1919) & ARTHUR WHITTEN BROWN (1886-1948) A printed menu for a "Banquet To Celebrate the First Non-stop Trans-Atlantic Flight by Capt. Sir J. Alcock and Lieut. Sir A. W. Brown," held at the Savoy Hotel by the Royal Aero Club on Monday, 23rd June 1919, 3 pages, small 8°, the first page signed in pencil by Alcock, Brown and 2 others ("J. Alcock," "A. W. Brown," "M.A. Hawker" and "Mackenzie Grieve") and in ink by H. R. Hawker, 6½ x 4½in.

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JOHN WILLIAM ALCOCK (1892-1919) & ARTHUR WHITTEN BROWN (1886-1948) A printed menu for a "Banquet To Celebrate the First Non-stop Trans-Atlantic Flight by Capt. Sir J. Alcock and Lieut. Sir A. W. Brown," held at the Savoy Hotel by the Royal Aero Club on Monday, 23rd June 1919, 3 pages, small 8°, the first page signed in pencil by Alcock, Brown and 2 others ("J. Alcock," "A. W. Brown," "M.A. Hawker" and "Mackenzie Grieve") and in ink by H. R. Hawker, 6½ x 4½in.
Together with a section of a wooden Chauviere 'Rapid' propeller, the applied round brass plaque engraved: "Section of Chauviere propeller which was fitted to a Caudron biplane piloted by Edgar Brynildsen during the early part of the 1914-1918 War, 15½in. wide -- and The Flying Book. The Aviation World Who's Who and Industrial Directory. Edited by W. L. Wade (London, 1918). (3)

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E. L. Brynildsen, by descent.

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On 14 June 1919, Alcock, with Whitten Brown as his navigator, piloted a Vickers-Vimy biplane non-stop from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, County Galway, Ireland, in 16 hours and 27 minutes. Both men were knighted after the event.

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