APPENDIX

COMMERCIAL SECTION

AERONAUTICAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF
AMERICA, INC.

501 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y.

OBJECTS OF THE AERONAUTICAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF AMERICA, AS SET FORTH IN THE ARTICLES

T

OF INCORPORATION

O foster, advance, promulgate, and promote trade and commerce, throughout the United States, its territories, possessions, and in foreign countries, in the interests of those persons, firms or corporations engaged in the business of manufacturing, buying, selling and dealing in aircraft, aircraft motors, and aircraft parts and accessories of every kind and nature.

To reform any and all abuses which may arise relative thereto.

To secure for its members and those persons, firms or corporations dealing with them, freedom from unjust or unlawful exactions of whatever description.

To diffuse among its members accurate and reliable information as to the standing of its members and those persons, firms or corporations engaged in similar lines of business.

To procure uniformity and certainty in the customs and usages of trade and commerce among its members and those persons, firms or corporations having a common trade, business or professional interest in all matters pertaining to aeronautics.

To aid and assist in mapping out air roads and lanes, the location of landing fields, airdromes, hangars, or such other structures as may be necessary for the advancement of aeronautics.

To advocate and promote in every lawful way the enactment of just and equitable laws, both national and state, pertaining to aeronautics.

To settle, adjust and arbitrate any and all differences which may arise between its members, and persons, firms or corporations dealing with them.

To promote a more enlarged and friendly intercourse between its members and persons, firms or corporations engaged in the business of, or dealing in aircraft, motors and aircraft parts and accessories.

To acquire by grant, gift, purchase, devise, bequest, and to hold and dispose of, such property or assets as the purposes of the corporation shall require, subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed by law, and

Generally to do every act and thing which may be necessary and proper for the advancement of the aeronautical art and industry and the accomplishment of the objects and purposes hereinbefore set forth; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall authorize this corporation to engage in any business for pecuniary profit.

F. H. Russell, Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, chairman
Dr. G. W. Lewis, National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics
Prof. E. P. Warner, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
L. Clayton Hill, Society of Automotive Engineers
Hugh W. Robertson, National Aeronautic Association

California

Delaware

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Maryland
Massachusetts

Michigan
Missouri
Minnesota

New Jersey
New York

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Texas

Washington

Washington, D. C..

Wisconsin

State Committeemen

William Klein, San Francisco;
Wm. Henry, Los Angeles.

.E. R. Armstrong, Wilmington.
.Allan Jackson, Chicago.
.Fred M. Ruddell, Kokomo.
..L. B. Strothman, Waterloo.
.A. K. Longren, Topeka;
E. M. Laird, Wichita.
Temple N. Joyce, Baltimore.
.E. P. Warner, Cambridge.
.J. G. Vincent, Detroit.

W. B. Robertson, St. Louis.
W. A. Kidder, Minneapolis.
.C. D. Hanscom, East Orange.
.A. J. Elias, Buffalo;
Raymond Ware, Ithaca.
..J. M. Johnson, Dayton;
Henry Wacker, Akron;

C. E. Thompson, Cleveland.
.G. Sumner Ireland, Philadelphia.
.Frank B. Rhodes, East Greenwich.
.S. C. Coon, Dallas.

.Foster Russell, Spokane.
.Frank H. Russell.

..T. F. Hamilton, Milwaukee.

MEMBERS

Pioneers

Orville Wright, Dayton, Ohio.

Glenn H. Curtiss, Garden City, N. Y.

Manufacturing and Engineering

Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co., Keyport, N. J.

Airships, Inc., Hammondsport, N. Y.

Archibald Black, Consulting Engineer, Garden City, N. Y.

Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Corp., Garden City, N. Y.

Dayton Wright Company, Dayton, O.

The Douglas Company, Los Angeles, Calif.

G. Elias & Bro., Inc., Buffalo, N. Y.

Gallaudet Aircraft Corp., East Greenwich, R. I.