Defunct Aircraft Manufacturers of France - CL Ment-Bayard, Caudron, Antoinette, Nieuport, Soci T Pour L'Aviation Et Ses D Riv?'s (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Aces High Light Aircraft, Ameri-Cana Ultralights, Avro Canada, Birdman Enterprises, Canadair, Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd., Canadian Associated Aircraft, Canadian Car and Foundry, Canadian Vickers, Cub Aircraft, De Havilland Canada, Fairchild Aircraft Ltd., Found Brothers Aviation, Noorduyn, Para-Ski, Spectrum Aircraft, Symphony Aircraft Industries, Victory Aircraft. Excerpt: Commonly known as Avro Canada, this company started in 1945 as an aircraft plant and became within thirteen years the third-largest company in Canada, one of the largest 100 companies in the world, and directly employing over 50,000. It is best known as a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company, in particular for the highly advanced CF-105 Arrow, but through growth and acquisition it rapidly become a major, integrated company with diverse holdings. During the Second World War, Victory Aircraft in Malton, Ontario was Canada's largest aircraft manufacturer. Prior to 1939, as a part of National Steel Car Ltd. of Hamilton, the concern had been one of a number of "shadow factories" set up in Canada to produce British aircraft designs in safety. National Steel Car had turned out Avro Anson trainers, Handley Page Hampden bombers, Hawker Hurricane fighters and Westland Lysander army cooperation aircraft. National Steel Car Corporation of Malton, Ontario was formed in 1938 and renamed Victory Aircraft Limited in 1942 when the Canadian government took over ownership and management of main plant. During the Second World War, Victory Aircraft built Avro (UK) aircraft: 3,197 Anson trainers, 430 Lancaster bombers, six Lancastrian, one Lincoln bomber and one York transport. (L-R) Sir Roy Dobson and Crawford Gordon Jr. Note: Avro Arrow in background, c. 1957 In 1944, an Advisory Committee on Aircraft Manufacture was established by the Canadian government, the Canadian Director of Aircraft Production wrote to Minister of Munitions and Supply C.D. Howe in 1944 to express the "utmost importance to Canada" of the establishment of a Canadian aircraft industry, and UK-based Avro also established in 1944 a company searching for post-war opportunities. Bob Leckie of the RCAF was a strong advocate for years for an industry to design and build aircraft in Canada yet the Department of National Defense, according to Avro's Roy Dobson, gave "a cold reception" to doing more than building under l