1913 Early Aviation photo PONNIER Emile VEDRINES Gordon Bennett FRANCE REIMS

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From Henry Woodhouse Archive, 1913 photo
Emile Vedrines
,
second in 1913 Gordon Bennet Race in Reims
, France in a
Ponnier D.III monoplane
. w/period writing on reverse.
In pic 4, you can see the "F-5" on the side of the aeroplane.
Period typed description sheet:
"Flying at 125 miles an hour in the Gordon Bennett Trophy Contest..... The race took place at Rheims, France on September 29th. There were four contestants, three representing France and one representing Belgium - the other countries, including America, Germany, Italy, Austria and England did not compete being unable to construct aeroplanes capable of speed of 125 miles an hour. Every one of the contestants averaged above 120 miles and hour in speed for a distance of 124.80 miles; the winner averaged upward from 124 miles."
The Ponnier D.III is sometimes called a Hanriot. From wiki: "During 1911 René Hanriot hired Alfred Pagny, previously at Nieuport, as a designer. After Hanriot military prototypes failed to win orders at the Concours Militaire in late 1911 he sold his aircraft interests to another of his designers,
Louis Alfred Ponnier. Pagny designed two similar single seat monoplanes for Hanriot and Ponnier, the Hanriot D.I and the Ponnier D.III; the latter was sometimes referred to as the Hanriot D.III."
Aviator
Emile Vedrines (brother of Jules Vedrines) won 2nd place in the Gordon Bennett Race in Reims, France in the Ponnier D.III monoplane.
Period writing on reverse:
"E. Vedrines"
Wiki: The Ponnier D.III was a French monoplane racing aircraft, designed to compete in the 1913 Gordon Bennett Trophy race. It finished a close second in the 1913 Gordon Bennett Race in Reims, France.
The Gordon Bennett Aviation Trophy was an international airplane racing trophy awarded by James Gordon Bennett Jr., the American owner and publisher of the New York Herald newspaper. The trophy is one of three Gordon Bennett awards: Bennett was also the sponsor of an automobile race and a ballooning competition.
Photo measures approx.: 7" x 5"
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