Haraka (#2)
Thanks for your info',seems likely then,that the low-loader event I witnessed was a precursor to the trials afloat,to prove that the machine could successfully operate from a small moving platform.Didn't think at the time,but I could have asked Wallis myself,when he gave a talk at my Flying Club at Shipdham in 1988.
Apart from the autogyros,for which he was well known,he had also constructed a replica of a Bleriot-type aeroplane called,I think,the Walbro,originally built by his forebears,which I used to see in the hangar at RAF Swanton Morley.Wonder what happened to that ?