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A.V. Roe & Company, one of the great British Aircraft Manufacturing firms,
was founded in 1910 by the famous aviation pioneer
Sir Alliott Verdon Roe.
Over the next 53(!) years the company produced
a multitude of machines from its factories in
Manchester and Southampton, including such types
as the "504-Trainer", the "Lancaster" bomber and
the impressive delta-wing "Vulcan".
Sir A.V. Roe left the company in 1928 when it was taken over
by Armstrong-Siddeley, the fore-runner of Hawker-Siddeley.
The name AVRO, dropped in 1963, was recently revived
by Hawker Siddeley's successor, British Aerospace,
when they formed a new subsidiary, Avro International Aerospace.
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