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Avro

1910 to 1963

53 Years in business
Founded
1910 in Brownsfield Mill, Manchester, U.K.
Founder
A.V. Roe, Humphrey Verdon Roe
Headquarters
Alexandra Park, Woodford, Stockport, United Kingdom
Parent company
Hawker Siddeley
Employees
Not recorded
Products
Not recorded
Closed
1963

About the manufacturer

Avro (an initialism of the founder's name, A.V. Roe) was a British aircraft manufacturer. Its designs include the Avro 504, used as a trainer in the First World War, the Avro Lancaster, one of the pre-eminent bombers of the Second World War, and the delta wing Avro Vulcan, a stalwart of the Cold War. Avro was founded in 1910 by Alliott Verdon Roe at the Brownsfield Mill on Great Ancoats Street in Manchester. The company remained based primarily in Lancashire throughout its 53 years of existence, with key development and manufacturing sites in Alexandra Park, Chadderton, Trafford Park, and Woodford, Greater Manchester. The company was merged into Hawker Siddeley Aviation in 1963, although the Avro name has been used for some aircraft since then.

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