“Sir John Carling” plane: London to London
Date1927
Dimensions16.2 x 21.3 cm (6 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit LineCollection of Museum London.
Object number2015.026.038
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).
NamePHOTOGRAPH
1927
