Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1996-02 / Picture pages

Tsoe K Wong designed a single-seat biplane in 1913 with a 40 hp A.B.C. engine which was intended for production in China. Named Tong Mei (Dragonfly) it never left the UK and where this accident occurred is not known unless we have some racecourse recognition experts on our books.
The Wong biplane has brought some comments from Mr L.R.Jackson who points out that the T.K.Wong Ltd painted on the side of the fuselage dates it as after December 1913 when Wong became a limited company. There was a two-seater development which just had 'Wong' on the fuselage. This appears in the book on Shoreham reviewed in this issue but dated as being built at Shoreham in 1912.
It records that Tsoe K. Wong was born in Australia and came to Britain to study aeronautical technology. After learning to fly the Collyer-England biplane, he left Shoreham and eventually set up shop in Malaya with Avro 504s.