Word: siddeley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purchaser, the Hawker Siddeley Co. of London, which controls many of Britain's biggest aircraft concerns (e.g., A. V. Roe, Hawker Aircraft, Armstrong Whitworth), will continue to make the Lincoln bomber,* reportedly will switch to the Tudor, the civilian version of the Lincoln, after the war. The company has also agreed to maintain an undisclosed level of employment at the Canadian plant, set up a completely integrated aircraft industry in Canada, including research and development...
...Canadian plane industry relies upon the U.S. and Britain for designs, motors and instruments. Its prospects for striking out for itself on the postwar markets were slim. Now, the Hawker Siddeley backing and its know-how may put Canada in the postwar aviation-manufacturing race...