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The British Aircraft Industry – English Electric
Author: Roy Evans
A series of books that cover the British Aircraft Industry in the Twentieth Century. From young men interested in ballooning or making model aircraft, they developed aircraft for wartime and passenger transport.
The English Electric company was formed in the 1920’s, by amalgamating five different companies who had made munitions, armaments and aeroplanes during The Great War. One of the five, Dick, Kerr & Co, of Preston were manufacturing narrow gauge railway locomotives for the War Office and were asked by the Admiralty to build sea planes designed by The Seaplane Experimental Establishment at Felixstowe.
At their Preston works the Company started sub-contract work for Handley page, manufacturing both the Hampden and Halifax Bombers. After the Second World War ended they switched to making aircraft of their own design. Initially the iconic Canberra Bomber, then the lightning fighter. Both gave yeoman service around the world
Author: Roy Evans has been a keen amateur military historian for forty years, studying the United States 8th Army Air Force, when he lived in East Anglia and more recently whilst living in Northamptonshire, Royal Air Force Bomber Command. Roy is a member of several organisations, supporting the Lincolnshire Lancaster Association for the last twenty five years and also the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at East Kirkby.
As a member of the Royal Air Force Historical Society for several years he regularly attends their meetings. He is the Retford U3A Group Leader for their Military History Group and is a regular speaker at their monthly meetings.
He has also written a number of books and has had a number of works published in specialist aviation magazines. He is a regular contributor to the Lincolnshire Lancaster Association’s journal ‘Memorial Flight’.
