The Oases Trophy contest in Egypt in December 1933 consisted of a two-day rally, the Circuit of the Oases, plus a speed trial. Karl Schwabe in his Klemm, D-2728, took third place in the rally according to Flugsport magazine. After the event, he headed for Cape Town. Photo from: Stadtarchiv Böblingen

German-looking scenery, but owner Karl Schwabe made several flights to Africa with this plane. Before 1935 it was registered as D-2728. In February 1937 Schwabe crashed it during the Oases air rally in Egypt, which was won by a Ju 86, D-AKOP. Schwabe was killed in another crash as a Luftwaffe reserve officer in August 1937. Photo from: Klemm

Deutschlandflug (German Air Rally), late August 1933. 126 planes competed, of which almost two-thirds were Klemm L 25s, L 26s and Kl 32s. In the background are Junkers of Lufthansa. All the planes already wear the black, white and red flag on the right and the swastika flag on the left side as decreed by the new Nazi regime on 6 July. The odd one out is the Heinkel HD.22 bottom right, which was bought by the US Army for the military attaché in Berlin with serial 30-420! Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

Seen at the Klemm factory, D-2299 became G-ACYU and VH-UVE. Flown to Australia in 1935 by Barry Littlejohn and from Australia to South Africa by Lores Bonney in 1937. Photo from: SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek

In 1937 flown solo by Lores Bonney from Australia, where she lived, to South Africa, where she had been born. VH-UVE shipped back to Australia and destroyed in a hangar fire at Archerfield on June 28, 1939. Photo from: State Library of Queensland