Handley Page

The lack of a suitable strategic bomber led the Air Ministry to short-circuit normal testing of prototypes before placing orders. The Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, the Handley Page Hampden and the Vickers... 

Peter Fearon, Formative years of the British aircraft industry . Business History Review, 43 (1969), 476-95 Peter Fearon, The British airframe industry and the state, 1918-35 , Economic History Review, 27 (1974), 236-51 Peter Fearon, The vicissitudes of a British aircraft company Handley Page Ltd between the wars . Business History, 20 (1978), 63-86 Peter Fearon, Aircraft manufacturing , in N. K. Buxton and D.H. Aldcroft (eds.), British Industry between the Wars Instability and Industrial Development, 1919-39 (London Scolar Press, 1979), pp. 216—40. 

As has already been indicated, the water-proof plywood was used extensively for the constmction of aircraft and gliders and the densified wood was used in propeller manufacture for such aircraft as the Avro Lancaster, the Handley Page Halifax, the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Typhoon. 

Siddley HS-121 Trident and HS-125 Jet Dragon, the Handley Page Herald, the SAAB Lansen and Draken, and the Westlands/Saunders Roe Hovercraft. 

Figure 72 Handley Page Herald (courtesy of Paul Middleton at Oldprops).

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