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The late Charles Edwin Thompson, father of America's greatest air racing classic, was a leader in the automotive industry as President of Thompson Products, Inc. His death in 1933 marked the loss to air racing of a distinguished patron and self sacrificing enthusiast. 

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Fred Crawford, who succeeded C. E. Thompson as President of Thompson Products, Inc., has carried on the traditional encouragement of speed flying which characterizes the Thompson Trophy award. Each year under his leadership Thompson Products, Inc., have posted larger cash prizes for the winners. 

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THE THOMPSON TROPHY 
awarded the winner of the annual landplane free-for-all closed course racing classic of the National Air Races 

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1930
C. W. Holman 
201.91 m.p.h. 
Laird Solution 

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1931 
Lowell Bayles 
236.239 m.p.h. 
Gee-Bee 

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1932 
J. H. Doolittle 
252.686 m.p.h. 
Gee-Bee 

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1933 
J. R. Wedell 
237.952 m.p.h. 
Wedell Williams 

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1934 
Roscoe Turner 
248.129 m.p.h. 
Wedell Williams 

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1935 
Harold Neumann 
220.194 m.p.h. 
Howard 

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1936 
Michel Detroyat 
264.261 m.p.h. 
Caudron-Renault