de Havilland Propellers
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. Licence negotiations were completed in June 1934.
| 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, Ltd., was incorporated on 27 April 1946, with the main headquarters at Hatfield as the centre of design, development, and flight-testing, and with the main production plant at Lostock in Lancashire. The factory had been built in only nine months as part of the government's emergency pre-war shadow-factory programme.
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.