It certainly seems a crazy way to overcomplicate the matter but there were a number of them beforeWW2.
Here's a British one, incorrectly labelled "world's first" which it manifestly was not.
https://www.britishpathe.com/video/f...r-in-the-world
btw, Asturias, in what way was the Cid a "first"?
This one was the first though, an Archdeacon-Voisin of 1905 I think. Or is it just an elaborate pedalo?
