The Schlesinger Race, also known as the "Rand Race", the "Portsmouth – Johannesburg Race" or more commonly the 'African Air Race', took place in September 1936. The Royal Aero Club announced the race
Official Schesinger Race programme, Front cover 1936
I. W. Schlesinger. Flight, 8 October 1936
Scott and Guthrie triumphant after winning the race. Flight, 8 October 1936
Scott and Guthrie standing in front of the winning Vega Gull.
A. E. Clouston
Videos
Air Commodore Arthur Edmond Clouston, was a New Zealand–born British test pilot and senior officer in the Royal Air Force. He took part in several air races and record-breaking flights in the 1930s.
The Schlesinger African Air Race
…killing the pilot Maxwell Findlay and radio operator A. Morgan, while Kenneth Waller and the passenger Derek Peachey escaped with injuries. Finally, A.E. Clouston made a forced crash landing 150 miles south of Salisbury in his Miles Hawk Six. In 1937 Charles E. Gardner went on to win the King's Cup Race in the…
A.E. Clouston, September 1936
Hafner AR.III (G-ADMV) at Heston, 1935
Miles Hawk Speed Six (G-ADOD), September 1936
DH.88 Comet (G-ACSS), Gravesend, August 1937