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the post World War I era, unfortunately for Thomas-Morse, when this MB-3 type was advertised by the Army Air Service on open bids, Boeing won the contract to manufacture them in quantity.
   Although he never became an active pilot, William continued to fly on occasion, accompanied by one of the test pilots, until 1918. Evidently Oliver did no flying and confined his activities to engineering and administrative duties. 
   After the end of World War I the production of military aircraft was quickly brought to a standstill by a general cancellation of Government orders and the only work remaining was the authority to complete planes then under construction, and make spare parts. Ralph Brown left to go with Old Tom Canoe Company in 1919, then during the ensuing post war period Thomas-Morse did factory conversion of Government owned DeHavilland-4 airplanes, built an experimental airmail plane, and continued the steady development of the "S" series famed "Tommies" into both tandem and side-by-side two-seater planes for training and sport flying. About this time the firm also started the study and development of all metal plane construction methods and did much valuable pioneering work in this field.
   In 1921 the firm built tow racing planes which were entered in the National Air Races. Following the metal construction development several experimental all metal military planes were built, using both the prevailing liquid-cooled and the new radial air-cooled engines, but these craft were never put into production.
   After World War I Oliver retired from aviation and devoted his time to his extensive ranch propertied near Rosario, Argentina.
   In 1922 William resigned his position as Vice President and Consulting Engineer of Thomas-Morse and retired from the firm. Since 1910 he had assisted in the planning and building if 22 different types of airplanes and during World War I had guided his firm to the fourth largest producer of military aircraft in the United States, certainly a creditable pioneering record. He continued to live in Ithaca for a time but soon purchased a residence property at Daytona Beach, Florida for a winter home. At this time he began private aviation engineering consulting work and later became a Director and Consulting Engineer for the Cunningham Aircraft Corporation, Rochester, New York, a firm closely associated with the James Cunning-