Elementary Science of Aerial Navigation thru Power of the Hour; A Simple, Non-Techincal and Comprehensive Treatise.

Kansas City, MO: Motor Car Publishing Co., [1910]. First edition. Quarto (8 x 10 1/2 inches). 80 pp. Well illustrated from photographs. Publisher's printed cream wrappers with the back cover having a tinted ad for the Kansas City Automobile Supply Company. Minor soiling but a very good copy. Only 1 copy located by OCLC.The first 17 pp. are devoted to dirigibles with the remainder of the book concerned solely with heavier-than-air flight (airplanes). It is indeed comprehensive with chapters on early aviation history (rare in a 1910 publication), design, construction, engines, etc. Victor Page was a gear-head of the first order and was involved with early aeroplanes, cars, motorcycles and boats. But his first love was cars Victor W. Page was a talented engineer and inventor who designed an American Automobile called The Victor Page and The Utility. Victor W. Page began his automotive career in 1905 when he and his brother Arthur A. Page produced The Page automobile in 1905. From 1921 to 1924 he operated his own automobile company called the The Victor W. Page Corporation in Farmington, NY. One can see traces of his interest in flight as late as 1921 when he named one of his cars the Victor Page Aero-Type Four.