TELLIER

Motorboat-builder Alphonse Tellier produced at least 6 aircraft 1909-16 before testing T.2 flying-boat (June 1916), developed into better T.3 (January 1917) with 200-hp HS8b, Tellier building 53 and Nieuport 47. Tc.6 version with 47-mm Hotchkiss in bow cockpit was ordered in large numbers, Tellier building 55 before Armistice. Fresh design T.4 was ordered in numbers with 350-hp Sunbeam, about 40 delivered. At least 5 fresh versions tested 1918, company being taken over August 1918 by Nieuport which sold about 12 Nieuport-Tellier boats before closure in 1920.

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