The Handley Page H.P.22 and H.P.23 were single-seat sport monoplanes produced for the 1923 Lympne light aircraft trials.
With prizes worth a total of £2,150, the Lympne light aircraft competition of October 1923 attracted 28 entries including the Avro 558, de Havilland Humming Bird and Gloster Gannet.
Handley Page provided three contestants,[1] at that time without a company type letter but bearing the competition numbers 23, 25 and 26.
The open cockpit was ahead of the wings and the undercarriage had two small wheels, mounted inboard on the fuselage on the H.P.22 and outboard on the H.P.23.
[1][4] Thus modified, with a lightweight pilot and bungee-cord takeoff assistance, allowed under the rules, no.25 took part in the competition though without success.