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 162,259 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.

Hawker: Hornet

From Graces Guide
1929.

High speed single-seater interceptor fighter.

The Hawker " Hornet " single-seater machine was an interceptor. It was on exhibition at Olympia in 1929 but visitors were not allowed to inspect it at close quarters. It was of metal construction, driven by a Rolls· Royce F XI supercharged engine. Although a biplane, the arrangement of the pilot's seat relatively to the centre section of the upper wings was such as to give a n unobstructed upward view.[1]

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