WIGRAM flying boat (Arthur Wigram, Wigram Flying Boats Ltd., E. Cowes, Isle of Wight)

   Reported in February 1913, designed by Mr. Wigram of Sydney, Australia, the machine was a development of one he proposed in 1910. It was constructed for him by S.E. Saunders Ltd. of Cowes, but was never completed.
   The description and sketch in The Aeroplane showed a single step hull housing the crew of two in tandem. The tail unit was earned by a curved girder, shown open, although covered by plywood skinning on the actual hull, projecting upwards and backwards. The tail surfaces were curved in outline, and consisted of a tailplane with divided elevator, and a fin with an additional ventral area and an unbalanced rudder.
   The engine was placed in the hull behind the pilot, who was seated at the leading edge of the lower wing, and this drove a pusher propeller by chain. No detail of the wing structure is available, but it is known that wing tip balancing floats would be fitted.
   The machine was not completed, presumably due to lack of funds and did not compete in the Seaplane Circuit of Britain, for which it had been entered.

   Power: 100hp Green six-cylinder inline water-cooled driving by chain a pusher propeller.