Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 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.

Elsie Joy Davison

From Graces Guide

Elsie Joy Davison (née Muntz) (14 March 1910 – 18 July 1940), aviator and airline director

1910 Elsie Joy Muntz was born in Canada.

1929 She started flying.

1933 Married William Frank Davison

1936 Founder of Utility Airways with her husband. She was the country's first female director of an airline company

1940 She died serving with the Air Transport Auxiliary, becoming the first female British aviator to die in World War II.

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