DAWSON & de PAVILLET monoplane (Canterbury Motor Co., The Pavilion, Rhodaus Town, Canterbury, Kent)

   H.A. Dawson was the driving force behind the construction of this aircraft, his partner, H.F. de Pavillet, being more concerned with the business aspects of the motor manufacturing and sales side.
   The machine, which resembled a Demoiselle, was constructed of bamboo and steel tube, and was fitted with a 30hp Alvaston twin-cylinder, horizontally opposed, water-cooled engine. This had sufficient power for only a few hops when the machine was tested by Dawson in June 1910 at Old Park, St. Martin's Hill, Canterbury. The engine was changed for an Antoinette, probably a vee four, water-cooled type of 24hp, which proved to be too heavy. An Anzani, reportedly a horizontally opposed engine, was then fitted, but the aircraft was still not successful. It was sold to Mr. Dan Sherrin of Whitstable, less the engine, which was used to drive a compressor at the works for many years.