Mr. 1. W. Rhys : ' Management '
The Commodore Grand Orchestra
Directed by Joseph Muscant
Relayed from The Commodore Theatre, Hammersmith
Conductor B. Walton O'Donnell
A Programme of Music, for Group Dancing
Arranged in conjunction with The English Folk Dance Society
Dance
Nancy's Fancy
Gathering Peascods
Maid peeped out at the Window
Rufty Tufty
Bonnets so blue
Merry, merry Milkmaids Newcastle
Christchurch Bells
Black Nag
Epping Forest Childgrove
Hey Boys, up go we Hit and Miss
Galopede Sellenger's Round
Brief instructions will be given before each Dance
(Held under the competition rules of the Royal Aero Club)
A Running Commentary by Squadron-Leader Helmore, relayed from Heston Air Park, Hounslow
The race starts at 7.0 a.m. and is limited to bona-fide civil aircraft entirely constructed in the British Empire which can attain a speed of at least one hundred miles an hour. All the handicap allowances are made at the start at Heston.
The competitors subsequently pass through five control points at each of which each machine must wait forty minutes - Norwich (106 miles), Leeds (385. miles), Hooton (566 miles), Heston (731 miles), Bristol (888 miles). The finish is back at Heston again (982 miles) Our commentary will be given at the fourth control point, when competitors are again at Heston.
The full route is as follows:
Heston (Start); Leicester (86 miles); Norwich (Control pt. 196 m.); Nottingham (299 m.); Brough (358 m.); Leeds (Control pt. 385 m.); Birmingham (476 m.); Woodford (534 m.); Hooton (Control pt. 566 m.); Heston (Control pt. 731 m.); Shoreham (777 m.); Hamble (821 m.); Bristol (Control pt. 888 m.); Heston (Finish 982 m.)
With Interludes by The Wireless Military Band
and his B.B.C. Dance Orchestra
Played by Henry Ley
(arranged after consultation with the Royal Horticultural Society)
Major R.W.G. Hingston, M.C.: 'The Rhinoceros'
An Eye-Witness Account of the Finish by Squadron-Leader HELMORE
Relayed from HESTON AIR PARK, Hounslow
(From Cardiff)
NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF WALES
(Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Cymru)
(Leader, Louis Levitus )
Conducted by WARWICK BRAITHWAITE
AMBROSE and his ORCHESTRA, from THE MAY
FAIR HOTEL