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109 “Fuer grosses Aufsehen sorgten seine Versuche mit raketenbetriebenen
Fahrzeugen und Flugzeugen, die der medienbewusste
Fritz von Opel geschickt organisiert.” HRonline.de,
Fritz von Opel/nachrichten/hr.
110 New York Times, December 24, 1929.
111 Cliff R. Towner to Geoffrey N. Stein, November 22, 1994.
112 Daniel D. Hungerford to Keith Marvin, April 7 (continued on
April 28), 1964.
113 Quoted by Marvin, “The Wizards of West Second Street”.
114 Marvin, “Misguided Missile”.
115 Daniel D. Hungerford to Keith Marvin, June 1, 1964.
116 In 1994, the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum at Hammondsport
learned of a motion picture film showing the rocket car in
operation. A check with the Curtiss Museum in late summer
of 2008 revealed that no such movie was at hand.
117 Marvin, “The Wizards of West Second Street”, manuscript
version, p. 21. It is probably Osman shown standing with
Hungerford in a photograph taken with the car that day.
Marvin reports the day’s events were photographed, “showing
the car both standing and in motion.”
118 The clip identifies the co-driver as Charles J. Oswald of 532
Decker Avenue. However, a check of city directories shows
that address to be the Osman family residence. Charles A.
Osman is listed in the 1934 directory as a carpenter residing
with, apparently, his parents at that address.
119 Cliff R. Towner to Geoffrey N. Stein, November 22, 1994.
120 July 31, 1958 (“Tuesday [July 29, 1958] marked the 24 th
anniversary of an event at Roulette which is perhaps even
more significant today that it was in 1934.”). A hand-written
inscription on the clip reads, “With our Compliments Daniel
D. & Floyd S. Hungerford 11-11-1958”.
121 Elmira Star-Gazette, July 2, 1935.
122 Unidentified clip apparently from an Elmira newspaper in
1936, this based on other data in the story, specifically references
to Chemung County and Harry W. Laidler’s candidacy
for governor.
123 Noted and illustrated in Special Interest Autos, no. 146,
March/April 1995.
124 Shirley H. Hyde to Geoffrey Stein, September 9, 1992. In
another letter, November 2, 1992, Hyde noted that her “husband’s
brother patented a gun-type soldering iron in the
early 1940’s.” Note references elsewhere in this paper to the
Hungerford’s rocket-powered soldering iron.
125 According to the 1935 directory, the Hyde family resided at
1164 West First Street while the Jennie L. Hopkins and the
two Hungerford women were at 1160 West First Street.
126 According to a Southside High School class of 1947 website,
Towner was a member of that class.
127 Cliff R. Towner, to Geoffrey N. Stein, November 22, 1994.
128 Towner to Stein, November 22, 1994.
129 McCann to Stein, July 19 1994. McCann said her father, who
died in 1935, worked for engine manufacturer Henry
Kleckler in Bath prior to working for Curtiss. McCann’s
mother’s brother, Harry Genung, also worked for Curtiss as
chief financial officer.
130 A letter from Daniel Hungerford on August 26, 1966, refers to
“Ed & Helen”. The current author suggests the recipients
were Erwin D. French and Helen E. Heckman French, who
had married after the deaths of their first spouses. Erwin and
Helen French in the 1950’s lived in Horseheads. Later the two
moved to eastern Massachusetts, where she had been married
and lived with her first husband. Additional discussion
of the Hungerford letter is noted in other areas of this book.
131 George Mapes in telephone conversations with Geoffrey
Stein, July 23 and 24, 2008. Stein’s notes were revised on
August 5, 2008, after Mapes reviewed Stein’s initial record.
While Mapes said he had the rocket car for his second,
1947–1948, year at Champlain College, a photograph he supplied
of him with the car at the college is marked “April 3,
1947”.
132 Robert M. Boyles, Before I Forget (unpublished (?) autobiography),
no page numbers.
133 Robert Boyles via telephone to Geoffrey Stein, July 31, 2008.
134 Quoted in the Page column published on September 4, 1994.
135 Shirley H. Hyde to Geoffrey Stein, September 9, 1992.
136 Igor Spajic, “1929 Hungerford Rocket Car Part 2”, Restored
Cars , Number 140, May-June 2000, p. 14
137 Daniel D. Hungerford to Keith Marvin, June 8, 1964. Farrell’s
letter to Hungerford was written from Kenmore on February
11, 1942. Hungerford also wrote on the Farrell letter “At present
Some where in the west[?]”.
138 Undated (probably 1964) Hungerford notes on an undated
manuscript rejection letter from Liberty Weekly. Hungerford
further noted “Material referred to above was written and
forwarded to Liberty Magazine by Joseph R. Farrell, Jr.”
139 Thomas E. Byrne, Chemung County 1890-1975 (Elmira, 1976),
p. 73.
140 Daniel D. Hungerford to Keith Marvin, May 28, 1964.
32 Daniel and Floyd Hungerford: Rocket Power, Interstellar Travel and Eternal Life, by Geofrey N. Stein