Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 174,148 pages of information and 250,321 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Alan Samuel Butler (1898-1987), was a British aviator and, as claimed in his obituary in The Times, the first private aeroplane owner-driver. Since 1923 Butler was chairman of De Havilland Aircraft Company, which he financed, until 1950, a year when De Havilland employed 20,000 people and was building the Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner.
Chairman of the De Havilland Aircraft Co
Married Lois Reid
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