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- "The Air Ministry Competition at Martlesham". Flight . No. 5 August 1920. 5 August 1920. pp. 855–861.
- Jackson, A.J. (1973). British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 1. London: Putnam. ISBN 0-370-10006-9.