OK, having just 'dissed' the whole internet and everyone on it with my previous post, Wiki (yes, Wiki) says that the Siemens Schuckert also used a coarse pitch prop:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine#World_War_I
Used on several late war types, notably the Siemens-Schuckert D.IV fighter, the new engine’s low running speed, coupled with large, coarse pitched propellers that sometimes had four blades (as the SSW D.IV used), gave types powered by it outstanding rates of climb,
The question of prop pitch on take-off was also an important matter in WW2. I seem to recall Douglas Bader was flying an early Hurricane with the two-pitch prop. On take-off he failed to select 'coarse', ran along the runaway at high speed, unable to take-off, and eventually trashed the aeroplane. Coarse pitch was for take-off and sustained climb, fine pitch was for flying.
Barry
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