Carling Airdrome Police Tags (2)
Date1927
Credit LineGift of the Estate of Mrs. Olive E. Carty, care of Ms. Edith McKay, London, Ontario, 1977.
Object number1977.103.044
Label TextIn 1927, Carling Breweries sponsored a London-to-London trans-Atlantic flight. It promised $25,000 to those who completed the 6,276 km trip. After an abortive attempt on August 29, 1927, on September 1, the plane took off from a temporary airstrip west of Crumlin Road on the south side of Dundas Street, near the present-day Argyle Mall. But it never arrived in London, England, disappearing somewhere over the Atlantic. Carling Breweries gave the $25,000 to the families of pilot Captain Terrence Tully and navigator Lieutenant James Medcalf, both of whom had served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War (1914-1918).
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GLASS BROTHERS & CO.
