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[[stamped]] FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE [[/stamped]]

WALTER S. BROCK 
Early Chicago Aviator - Engineer - Plane Builder 

Walter S. Brock was born at Bloomington, Illinois September 16, 1885, where he attended local schools, then graduated from the Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois in 1906 with a BS-ME Degree. 

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W. L. Brock

Following college Brock became employed by the Elmore Automobile Company of Clyde, Ohio, builders of a two-cycle engined automobile. There he became acquainted with E. W. Roberts who had worked for Sir Hiram Maxim in the building of his very early aeroplane. Later Roberts also built the well-known Roberts aero engines. 
As a result of this acquaintance Brock became associated with Augustus M. Herring in his shop at Hampstead, Long Island, New York in 1907 through 1909 when Herring was trying to sell a plane to the War Department. Reportedly Brock was an expert mechanic-machinist and made the Herring engine for that project. 
By 1911 Brock was determined to learn to fly, so he went to England where early in 1912 he enrolled for instruction in a monpolane flying school at Hendon Aerodrome near London. He obtained British F.A.I. License No. 285 later that year, then became chief pilot for the British Deperdussin, Hendon School.
Brock remained there through 1913, then in the spring of 1914 was back in the United States for three weeks in an effort to stir up interest in the Gordon Bennett Race. At that time he was flying Deperdussin and Morana monoplanes for
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