Well Done Treaders, I am indeed the Parnall Pixie.
I was built in Yate, close to my home in Bristol, and I'm one of two Parnall aircraft existing. The other is the Elf in the Shutleworth Collection.
In 1923 the Daily Mail and the Duke of Sutherland sponsored competitions designed to stimulate light aircraft development; Parnall entered a single seat low wing monoplane, the Pixie, built in two forms with 13hp and 26hp Douglas engines. The Pixie won the £500 Abdulla Company prize for speed. The aircraft produced for the 1923 Lympne Trials were unrealistic machines being too lightly-powered to be flown in even modest winds and in 1924 the Air Council announced another competition for higher powered two seaters. Bolas revised the Pixie to produce both a monoplane and a biplane with an upper wing called the Pixie III and Pixie IIIA respectively. Both were powered by 32hp Bristol Cherub III engines. Neither Pixie was successful in competition as both suffered forced-landings with engine trouble. The Pixie III was entered again in the 1926 Lympne Trials and finished fourth.
The Pixie's remains certainly rest wih the MAM:
http://www.midlandairmuseum.org.uk/about.html
Here's a picture of the biplane:
http://vulatalk.zdwebhosting.com/pic...eiii32hplg.jpg
The small wing mono:
http://vulatalk.zdwebhosting.com/pic...peed30hplg.jpg
and the long wing mono:
http://vulatalk.zdwebhosting.com/pic...longwinglg.jpg
There were several other mono/biplanes in the trials - the Supermarine Swallow and Halton Minus spring to mind.
Aibedane
Yes LowNSlow, you called? - Ah, I missed the edit. No, see above.