Larkhill Trials
From Graces Guide
The Larkhill Trials was the Military Aeroplane Competition held in 1912 to select planes for the British Army's Air Battalion. The planes that were entered for the trials are shown below but not all of them actually made the trial.
- 1 Hanriot monoplane (100 hp Gnome)
- 2 Hanriot monoplane (100 hp Gnome)
- 3 Vickers No.6 monoplane (70 hp Viale)
- 4 Bleriot XI-2 monoplane (70 hp Gnome)
- 5 Bleriot XXI monoplane (70 hp Gnome)
- 6 Avro Type G biplane (60 hp Green Engine Co)
- 7 Avro Type G biplane (60 hp ABC)
- 8 Breguet U2 biplane (110 hp Canton-Unne)
- 9 Breguet U2 biplane (110 hp Canton-Unne)
- 10 Coventry Ordnance Works biplane (100 hp Gnome)
- 11 Coventry Ordnance Works biplane (110 hp Chenu)
- 12 Bristol 6.E.2 biplane (100 hp Gnome)
- 13 Bristol G.E.2 biplane (70 hp Daimler-Mercedes)
- 14 Bristol-Coanda monoplane (80 hp Gnome)
- 15 Bristol-Coanda monoplane (80 hp Gnome)
- 16 Flanders biplane (100 hp ABC)
- 17 Martin-Handasyde monoplane (75 hp Chenu)
- 18 Aerial Wheel Co (50 hp NEC)
- 19 Mersey monoplane (45 hp Isaacson)
- 20^ British Deperdussin monoplane (100 hp Anzani)
- 21^ British Deperdussin monoplane (100 hp Gnome)
- 22 Maurice Farman biplane (70 hp Renault)
- 23 D.F.W. Mars monoplane (100 hp Mercedes)
- 24 Lohner biplane (120 hp Austro-Daimler) 25 Harper monoplane (60 hp Green Engine Co)
- 26 (French) Deperdussin monoplane (100 hp Gnome)
- 27 (French) Deperdussin monoplane (100 hp Gnome)
- 28 Handley Page Type f monoplane (70 hp Gnome)
- 29 Piggott Biplane (35 hp Anzani)
- 30 Cody IV monoplane (120 hp Austro-Daimler)
- 31 Cody V monoplane (120 hp Austro-Daimler)
- 32 Borel Monoplane (80 hp Gnome)
^Some contemporary accounts transpose the identities of the two British-built Deperdussins. Those quoted above are the majority presentation.
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Sources of Information
The Aeroplanes of the Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing) by J. M. Bruce. Published in 1982. p1