Henry Farman ordered his first biplane from the Voisin brothers in 1907, installed with an Antoinette 8-cylinder water-cooled engine rated at 50 hp. The machine was rolled out on 22 August 1907.
Customers with the Voisin brothers could order the Voisin biplanes or specify what they wanted to bbe build. In this case Henry Farman ordered a fairly standard 1907 biplane of the Voisin design, the machine became known as the Farman No.1 presumably because this text was in larg(er) letters on the rudder than of the Voisin brothers who were the designers and constructors. Farman had chosen the engine model.
This vintage 1907 Voisin model precedes the somewhat later models which had the characteristic compartments in the wing, named in French as 'cellulaire'.
The card was written and postmarked on 28.12.08 [28 December 1908].
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