It was one of a series of similar designs built by Wright, then one of Englands foremost aircraft engineers, between 1909 and 1910.
The noted English pioneer aviator and aircraft designer Thomas Sopwith learnt to fly in an example.
In order to reduce drag, the wing bracing used flat steel ribbons rather than wires, the struts of the undercarriage were of streamline section, and a polished aluminium spinner was fitted to the wooden propeller.
The prototype was wrecked when Warwick Wright swerved to avoid spectators while landing at Brooklands and ran into a boulder at the edge of the airfield, tearing the undercarriage off: the fuselage, wings and pilot continuing onwards, coming to rest in the adjoining sewage farm.
Data from Ransom, S. and Fairclough, F. English Electric Aircraft and their Predecessors, p.General characteristics Performance