Geeze "Cessna195" what a beauty ! Where is Hubba's drool bucket?
Gilmore was remarkable when it came to advertising. The Gilmore Co. sponsered race cars and even racing airplanes.
This photo is of Roscoe Turner with a vintage streamlined aircraft taken during the 1932 National Air Races, marked in pencil on reverse: "1932 - WEDELL WILLIAMS 44 GILMORE RED LION RACER ~ COL. ROSCOE TURNER - PILOT & EARL B. GILMORE - PRESIDENT GILMORE OIL COMPANY". Gilmore the Flying Lion truck is visible in background.
Roscoe Turner, is probably the greatest air racing pilot of the Golden Age. Photographs of Turner's planes throughout his racing career tell the story of a man who had mastered the art of securing corporate sponsorships. Smith propellers, Pratt and Whitney motors, H. T. spark plugs, Bendix, Twentieth Century Pictures, Heinz 57, and Mac Millan Ring Free oil were just a few of the many names and logos to appear on the side of Turner's planes. In the ten years he raced, He set numerous transcontinental records, In 1933 he won the Shell Division of the MacRobertson International Air Race from London to Melbourne. In 1935 he finished an agonizing 23.5 seconds behind the winner in the Bendix Trophy Race, flying from Los Angeles, California to Cleveland, Ohio, and led the Thompson Trophy Race until the last half lap when his engine began trailing black smoke. In 1938 Roscoe was back with a brand new Laird/Turner Racer in which he placed second in the Golden Gate Trophy Race and won the Thompson Trophy Race for the second time. At the close of the 1939 Cleveland National Air Races at which he had won the Thompson Trophy for an unprecedented third time, Roscoe Turner announced his retirement from active competition. As America's premier speed flyer, Turner was a multiple winner of the Harmon and Henderson Trophies, and received a special Distinguished Flying Cross by Act of Congress in 1952.(Credit: Golden Age of Air Racing)
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Don "oltoydoc" Sherwood
Vintage Gas
