Start or finish of the 1930 Ford Reliability Tour. The Waco CRG was designed for this event and the two examples built both took part, John Livingston taking second place in NC600Y / 2 and Art Davis third place in this airframe, NC660Y / 4. Detail of the same original as photo 370617. Number 8 is NC400V. Photo from: Wayne State University

Start or finish of the 1930 Ford Reliability Tour. NC9092 was flown by Eddie August Schneider who was 18 years old and won the Great Lakes Trophy for the fastest light aircraft. Schneider was from New Jersey but we can't decipher the titles. Number 22 is a Bourdon Kitty Hawk, NC30V, which was flown by Nancy Hopkins. Photo from: Wayne State University

The Rearwin 2000 Ken-Royce was a three-seat touring biplane first flown in 1929. This aircraft took part in the 1930 Ford Reliability Tour. The aircraft in the centre, NC589N / 8, is a twin-engined Curtiss 55 Kingbird D-2. It was flown by Walter Beech, then vice-president of Curtiss. Part of the same original picture as photo 369221. Photo from: Wayne State University

Finish of the 1930 Ford Reliability Tour at Ford's own airport near Detroit. NC8485 / 6, piloted by Harry Russell, took first place. It appears that this plane was at this point the sole 7-AT, with one 420-hp P&W Wasp and two 300-hp Wright J-6 engines. NC401H / 5, a 5-AT-C, took fourth place. Note, centre right inside the hangar, the Fokker F.VIIa/3m Josephine Ford, which Richard Byrd flew over or near the North Pole in 1926. This historic aircraft was the very first Fokker trimotor, demonstrated by Tony Fokker in the 1925 Reliability Tour. It is preserved near here in the Henry Ford Museum. Photo from: Wayne State University