BEARDMORE, WILLIAM & CO

UK

Large British engineering and shipbuilding company which turned to aircraft W.B.III construction just before the First World War, obtaining a license to build German DFW biplanes to be powered by Beardmore-built Austro-Daimler engines. Built large numbers of aircraft under W.B.26 subcontract during war. Under leadership of G. Tilghman Richards produced original aircraft, including W.B.III, a redesigned Sopwith Pup with folding wings and folding or jettisonable landing gear. Designed and built a small number of civil and military aircraft in the interwar years. Back to the letter B

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