The Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter? At this stage that's good enough for me mate.....
There is certainly a connection if you look at wiki but the name Sopwith gave this machine was the Sigrist Bus. However my source unlike wiki says he made the altitude flight the following day?
Sopwith 1½ Strutter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In December 1914, the
Sopwith Aviation Company designed a small, two seat biplane powered by an 80 hp (60 kW)
Gnome rotary engine, which became known as the "Sigrist Bus" after Fred Sigrist, Sopwith's Works Manager. The Sigrist Bus first flew on 5 June 1915, and although it set a new British altitude record on the day of its first flight, only one was built, serving as a company runabout.
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