Bristol Tourer

The Bristol Tourer was a British civil utility biplane built in the years after the First World War, reusing as much as possible of the design of the wartime Bristol Fighter. It was sold with whatever engine a customer wanted and could get, among them the Rolls-Royce Falcon, Siddeley Puma, Hispano-Suiza 8 and Wolseley Viper, and many carried a canopy over one or two passenger seats in the rear cockpit, which gave the type its first name of Coupe, while the pilot stayed in an open cockpit. Bristol numbered the variants Types 27, 28, 29, 47 and others, including a floatplane, a ski-equipped Scandinavian Tourer and trainer and military versions for Greece and Bulgaria. Tourers flown by Western Australian Airways began the first scheduled airline services in Australia on 4 December 1921.