A.Jackson Avro Aircraft since 1908 (Putnam)
In the summer of 1910 A. V. Roe and Company declared its willingness to build aeroplanes to other people's designs and the first such aircraft was a Farman-type biplane for a Bolton business man. Bolts, fittings and bracing wires were also supplied to Miss Lilian Bland who built and flew the Mayfly biplane of her own design at Carnamony, Belfast. Each of these aircraft was fitted with one of the few examples of the 20 h.p. two cylinder, horizontally opposed, aircooled Avro engines. The Farman-type evidently did not meet with much success as 18 months later, at the end of 1912, the engine and airframe were advertised for sale in new condition for ?45 and ?60 respectively.
M.Goodall, A.Tagg British Aircraft before the Great War (Schiffer)
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AVRO Farman type biplane
In 1910 a machine was constructed for M.F. Edwards of Bolton with a 20hp two-cylinder two-stroke engine, which although identified as an Avro engine, was designed by M.F. and W. Edwards and made by H.W. Cowley and Co. of Daubhill, Bolton. No details of the machine are available, but it was owned by a Manchester group of enthusiasts, including four Edwards brothers, until advertised for sale at the end of 1912.