Air Navigation & Engineering Company

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Air Navigation & Engineering Company Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1919
resolution 1927
Seat Addlestone , UK
Branch Car manufacturers , aircraft manufacturers

Air Navigation & Engineering Company Ltd. was a British manufacturer of automobiles and aircraft .

Company history

The Blériot aircraft factory had opened a factory in Addlestone during the First World War to manufacture aircraft of the brands Société de Production des Aéroplanes Deperdussin and Avro . The Air Navigation & Engineering Company owned the plant in 1919 and began manufacturing automobiles in 1920 . Their brand name was Blériot-Whippet . There was no connection with the French company Blériot Aéronautique . Production ended in 1927.

Automobiles

The only model Blériot-Whippet was a cycle car .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
  • David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975. Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester 1997, ISBN 1-874105-93-6 . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.