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Regulations for an international air race from Paris to Saigon;
GOLFER AND Indo-China and return to begin
COMPOSER
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Bognor, Regis, Dec. 10.
October 25th, 1936, have just been
announced by the Aero Club of
France, revealing that the French Governmht will buy the winner's
91-year-old Englishman pinne for 1,200,000 francs.
claims to be the fastest calcu-
lator of pounds, shillings and
A distance of 21,947 kilometres,
penca in the world. He is Mr. the route will lead from Paris to 'Alfred Phillips, of Walton Road, Cairo and Bagdad and thence to Bognor Regis.
Saigon by way of Allahabad, and
After his name he puts the the turn light must be done by letters W. Q. S. D. World's Quickest Sterling Decimalist.
the winner in less than 90 hours. All types of planes will be admit- ted to the race, the only stipula- tions ding that they must have of alr earned their certificate
A slightly built, white-bearded man, whose pale blue eyes, bronzed face and quick move ments give him an elfinlike air, worthiness beforehand, and they he gave
a demonstration of his prowess to-day.
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He multiplied sums of money by pilot. a million in his head in less than 10 seconds a time.
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In principle the first hop must! jbe non-stop from Paris to Bagdad, but this will not be compulsory, and the contestants may land at On a piece of paper a corrispon“[Cairo if necessary. dent wrote the figures E6 8s. 43⁄4;d., and handed it to him face down, Then,
watch in hand.
(the interviewer). said
he,
"Go"
The first control will be at Sal-
on, where n rest of 48 hours will e accorded. The total elapsed take-off from
Ho turned up the paper and eight time between the seconds later handed the answer, Paris and the return to the French capital must not be more than £6,419,791 138, 40.
twelve days, although the prize of He was tried again with the sum1,200,000 francs goes to the win- £2 11s. 74d. In 7 seconds hener only if he makes the return not counting flight in 90 hours. the 48 hours rest at Saigon. This he repeated on three other
Running concurrently with the occasions, his times being eight simple Paris-Saigon-Paris speed seconds, tine seconds and eight race will be a handicap race for seconds consecutively.
Camo
back with Live
£2,580,208 Gs. 8d.
answer,
Five years ago, he was tested by Mr. A. H. Rowell, F.I.A., before whom his multiplied mentally by ONA million the sum of £5 69. 11%d. in eight seconds.
"My method I learnt from an old teacher in the Birkbeck School, Peckham, away back in 1850," he said. "The secret of it is to throw the shillings and into a decimal of a pence pound, which can then be easily transformed by multiplying by -a-million.".
Mathematics is far from being Mr. Phillips' only gift. Who he
multimotor planes flying with full load at an altitude of not less than 2,000 metres,.
How many plans will take part in these races is not yet known, as reglatration is just beginning, but the Aero Club expects many foreign as well as French contes- tants. Several French airplane constructors are building special speed models for the tat.
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