UStik, if you read the magazine article back at post 961 on this page (Here, there and everywhere) you will see where the writer was 'very interested in the plan Ed brought with him.' This along with his new transistorised radio and other odds and sods. Correct me if I am wrong, but that meeting must have been not much later than May 1962, and the only plan we know of is the Myers drawing, the MAN/Topflight plan still being more than 6 months away. Now for a bit of supposition. I have here and will scan and post, pictures of Ed and his trike Orion, which appears to have less dihedral the the Topflight version. Methinks that Orion begat Taurus slowly during 1961, and that Ed may have indeed built two Taurus after the demise of the flop. It just might be that one of them was the original, Kazmirski 'contest Taurus' and the other the modified, longer 'cover girl'. Given Eds propensity to modify everything it does not seem inconceivable.
This would give him two models to take to Africa, with wings identical enough to fit either fuselage, as we know happened, thanks to Cees. It would seem that the pilot, and possibly the canopy, of the first (short) Taurus later ended up perched on top of the T2. Ed obviously preferred the longer model for contest work, and this model was then used as the basis for the MAN/TF version. Just a thought.
Evan.