Handley Page Hamlet

The Handley Page HP.32 Hamlet was a British six-passenger high-wing monoplane transport designed and built by Handley Page to Air Ministry Specification 23/24 for a three-engined charter airliner. Only one was built, at Cricklewood in 1926 and registered G-EBNS, with leading edge slots and flaps for good landing performance. It first flew on 19 October 1926 with three Bristol Lucifer engines, which caused excessive vibration, so it was rebuilt with a smaller fin, a larger rudder and two Armstrong Siddeley Lynx engines, flying that way on 19 May 1927, although it proved underpowered. In March 1928 it was fitted with three Armstrong Siddeley Mongoose engines but flew only once in that form, on delivery to the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, and it was scrapped in 1929.