A Brief History of the Aviation Industry in Leeds
Companies
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Robert Blackburn |
Arrow Aircraft (Leeds) Ltd |
Marsh, Jones & Cribb |
AVRO (Yeadon)
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Marsh, Jones & Cribb
Dating back to the early 19th Century this firm were a furniture manufacturer. In the 1880s leading Arts and Crafts figure W.R. Lethaby was their chief designer and they undertook work fitting out ocean liners including the Mauretania. Like many engineering firms at the time of the First World War their skills were put to use for the war effort and planes were produced for the Royal Flying Corps in their York Road works. These planes were to other manufacturers designs and included Airco DH.5s, Sopwith Camels and Sopwith Snipes. After the war the firm returned to furniture manufacture.[6]
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External Website Links
Graces Guide page about Blackburns
Graces Guide page about Avro
Bomber Command Museum (Canada) page about the Lancaster Bomber[4]
Wikipedia page about the Avro Anson[5]
Wikipedia page about the first Blackburn monoplane[8]
Bibliography
The Basic Industries of Great Britain, Lord Aberconway, 1927[1]
The Railway Foundry Leeds, Ron Redman, Goose & Son, 1968[2]Look for this book on Amazon*
Auto Review 99: Blackburn Album, Aircraft built in Yorkshire, Rod Ward, Zeteo Publishing 2014[6]Look for this book at the publishers*
The History of Thomas Green & Son Ltd, John Pease, ISBN: 9781899889 81 5 [7]Look for this book at the publishers*
Aircraft of the fighting powers (vols 1 to 7), OG Thetford, Harborough Publishing Co, 1940's
Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I, Jane's Publishing Co, 1919
Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II, Jane's Publishing Co, 1940
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