11 December 1913

The Parsons Biplane was designed and built by P. M. Muller specially to make use of an automobile engine (the four-cylinder 40 h.p. Aster), the weight of which, compared with the light-weight aero engines, normally militated against its use in an aeroplane. The machine was sold to a pupil of the Bristol School named Boger, who crashed it on 11 December 1913 at Ripley, when attempting to land there to breakfast at the Talbot Hotel. The remains were bought by Pemberton Billing and some parts were used in the construction of the Gaskell-Blackbum biplane.