Smiths Aircraft Instruments
of Cricklewood Works, London, NW2
1929 S. Smith and Sons (Motor Accessories) formed an Aircraft Instruments Department.
1931 Smiths Aircraft Instruments, Ltd., of Great Portland Street, London.
1937 Part of the Aircraft and Marine Instruments Group of S. Smith and Sons (Motor Accessories) Ltd[1].
1937 Manufacturers and suppliers of aircraft instruments and accessories. "Essex" Fire Extinguishers. "Frazer-Nash" Wing-Tip Flare Device. "Harley" Aircraft Landing Lamps. Sole Concessionaires of "Husun" Navigational Instruments. [2]
1939 See Aircraft Industry Suppliers
World War II The company manufactured approximately 10 million aircraft instruments for the war effort.[3]
1944 Private company.
1944 One of 4 divisions of S. Smith and Sons (England) Ltd[4]:
1954 Smiths Aircraft Instruments, Ltd. Aviation instruments, automatic pilots, navigation instruments and accessories. Directors: R. Gordon-Smith; C. M. Carington, M.C.; C. W. Nichols; G. B. G. Potter, B.Sc., M.I. Mech.E.. A.F.R.Ae.S.; Wg. Cdr. H. M. Samuelson, R.A.F.O., A.M.I.E.E.; B. Haviland, O.B.E.; E. B. Moss (Technicaiy, J. H. Reyner, B.Sc., A.C.G.I., D.I.C., M.I.E.E., M.Inst.R.E.; L. A. Morgan, A.F.R.Ae.S. {General Manager). Head Office: Cricklewood, London, N.W.2. T.: Gladstone 3333. T.A.: Airspeed Norphone London. Works: S. Smith and Sons (England), Ltd., Bishops Cleeve, nr. Cheltenham, Glos. T.: Cleeve Hill 160. Associated Companies: Kelvin and Hughes (Aviation) Ltd.; Furzehill Laboratories, Ltd. [5]
1961 Manufacturers of all types of meters and instruments for aircraft. [6]
Presumably later Smiths Aerospace
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times 19 November 1937
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ Illustrated London News - 11 July 1970
- ↑ The Times 1 January 1945
- ↑ 1954 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE