
A 1912 pedal-powered monoplane built by Wandsworth blacksmith H. W. G. Belbin, using an old bicycle frame and wings made of bamboo and oiled canvas. It was driven on the ground by the rear wheel, which also drove the tractor propeller. The machine was “constructed under difficulties, and in spare time, the family kitchen having been utilized as a workshop”, and it bore “unmistakable evidence of the trade of its builder in the form of many fancy bits of smithing”.