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1910 Claude Grahame-White, aviator, fined

The Standard, Montreal, Canada, May 21st 1910

The Standard reported: "It cost Grahame-White, the English aviator, who recently made a desperate attempt to beat Paulhan for the prize of $50,000 for the flight from London to Manchester, $25.00 for automobile speeding. He was accused of running beyond the speed limit and was summoned to the Police Court at Woking. He did not care to go by train, and so got out his aeroplane at his home in Brooklands and flew over Woking landing in a field a mile beyond the court. The field is the property of the magistrate, who later fined Mr Grahame-White $25.00 for his automobile offence."

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