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LOUIS W. GREVE TROPHY RACE
INTERNATION FREE-FOR-ALL -- MEN PILOTS ONLY
Open to Motors of 549 Cubic Inch Displacement or Less
TOTAL PURSE $25,000 and the LOUIS W. GREVE TROPHY
Sponsored by Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company


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Louis W. Greve


The Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company is sponsoring the LOUIS W. GREVE TROPHY RACE and will award the LOUIS W. GREVE TROPHY to the winner.

Mr. Greve, president of the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company, and president of the National Air Races of Cleveland, established this Trophy Race to encourage greater speed and efficiency, as further evidence of his interest and desire to contribute to the greater advance meant of aviation.

The airplanes eligible for this event will be the 15 airplanes with motors of 549 cubic inch displacement or less, having made the faster time in the qualifying speed trials.

Distance -- 200 miles -- 20 laps of the 10-mile course.

$22,000.00 of the above total purse will be awarded to the winners of the first ten places on a division of prize money as shown below.

$2,000.00 of the above total purse will be awarded to the winner of the race, provided his speed exceeds the present National Air Race Record of 247.3 miles per hour.

$1,000.00 of the total above purse will be awarded as a Consolation Prize to the airplanes which do not finish in the first ten places, on the following basis: 11th Place, $300.00; 12th Place, $250.00; 13th Place, $200.00; 14th Place, $150.00; 15 Place, $100.00.

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Louis W. Greve Trophy
1938 NATIONAL AIR RACES

The owner of the winning airplane, or an Aero Club he may designate, will be given possession of the LOUIS W. GREVE TROPHY for ten months from the date of the Race.

The pilot of the winning airplane will be awarded, for permanent possession, a Gold Plaque; the pilot of the airplane winning second place will be awarded, for permanent possession, a Silver Plaque; and the pilot of the airplane winning third place will be awarded, for permanent possession, a Bronze Plaque.

Prize money: First Place, $10,000; Second Place, $5,000; Third Place, $2,000; Fourth Place, $1,000; Fifth Place, $900; Sixth Place, $800; Seventh Place, $700; Eighth Place, $600; Ninth Place, $500; Tenth Place, $500.

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1934 WINNER 
Lee Miles
Speed 206.241 m.p.h.
Miles Atwood

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1935 WINNER
Harold Neuman
Speed 212.716 m.p.h.
Howard

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1936 WINNER
Michel Detroyat
Speed 247.3 m.p.h.
Caudron-Renault

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1937 WINNER
R. A. Kling
Speed 232.272 m.p.h.
Kling Special


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