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| Industry | Aviation, engineering |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1935 |
| Defunct | 1961 |
| Fate | Ceased aircraft equipment manufacture |
| Successor | Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Ltd |
| Headquarters | Lostock, Bolton, Lancs. |
| Products | Propellers, fans, missiles |
| Parent | de Havilland Aircraft |
de Havilland Propellers was established in 1935, as a division of the de Havilland Aircraft company when that company acquired a licence from the Hamilton Standard company of America for the manufacture of variable-pitch propellers at a cost of about £20,000.[1][citation needed] Licence negotiations were completed in June 1934.[2][3][4] At the same time an extensive new factory, claimed to be one of the largest in the world, was laid down at Lostock, Bolton, some distance away from de Havilland's main aircraft plant at Hatfield.[5] This factory was built in only nine months as part of the government's emergency pre-war shadow-factory programme.[6]
de Havilland Propellers, Ltd., was incorporated on 27 April 1946, with the main headquarters at Hatfield as the centre of design, development, and flight-testing, but with the main production plant still at Lostock in Lancashire.
Work on missiles began in the late 1940s, early 1950s at the Hatfield plant in facilities which had been used during the war for the development and testing of aircraft propellers. By the early sixties, the company became Hawker Siddeley Dynamics which in turn became British Aerospace Dynamics, later BAE Systems (Guided Weapons Division). The Hatfield site closed in 1990.
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- ^ "The Air Annual of the British Empire - 1938, p262 - de Havilland Aero Engines". enginehistory.org. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
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- ^ The De Havilland Enterprise information booklet 10, 1950