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BROOKS, BANKS & SMITH CORP.
AIRCRAFT AND ACCESSORIES
"AIRGO" PRODUCTS
FARMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A.

ARTHUR R. BROOKS, PRES
HARLAND F. BANKS, VICE-PRES.
C.OREN SMITH, TREAS.

July 13th, 1920

Dear Brooks;

It has been ages since we wrote you.

Probably you have had some of the news ere this. However, I will try to give it to you as it comes to me, tonight.

As you know we have been operating a plane at Concord, N.H. for the International on the 25% gross basis. Concord is a virgin city for airplane work, and with the help of the two local newspapers, we created considerable interest in commercial aviation. In nine days we had taken in about $900, in spite of the fact that only five days were good flying days, and competition in the way of a Canuck Jenny which also carried on commercial work. Last Saturday and Sunday were to have been banner days and we fully expected to take in five or six hundred dollars, with the two seater which Banks had flown up the day previous. Friday Banks went on a 40 mile cross country flight for Wm Rogers, Minority leader of the N.H. Legislature, and was caught with his pants down in a terrific rain storm, and no available landing grounds. Briefly he crashed in a poor field, and wrote off the machine to avoid hurting the passengers, and damaging the engine, by turning her up on her side. We arrived back here with the machine the day Mrs. Long and Groah were killed at Salisbury Beach. Everyone felt so badly about that that the Avro crash was taken little notice of, except that we are out a machine with which to operate, and Huffman does not know when he can let us continue. Our income on the operation and a few flights around here amounted to about 230 dollars. However I had to pay my own expenses, in securing the field, arranging for publicity details, and our net profit was reduced to about 100 dollars. 

We are still tryting to get financed. It is out of the question to expect any further funds from Framingham people. We are endeavoring to get a few people interested in Concord and Manchester, whom Banks carried on joy rides while in Concord. What success we have remains to be seen. Something will have to be done soon.