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unusual facts about Cunliffe-Owen Concordia


Cunliffe-Owen Concordia

A second aircraft G-AKBE was displayed at the 1947 SBAC Show at Radlett and made an extensive European sales tour.


Acton, Wrexham

The parkland was originally laid out in 1785 by Sir Foster Cunliffe, who also added a new wing to the hall, designed by James Wyatt.

Barry Cunliffe

Cunliffe inspired the name for the character "Currant Bunliffe", an archaeologist in David Macaulay's 1979 book, Motel of the Mysteries.

Bellman hangar

The paintshop area of Southampton's recently closed Ford Transit factory started in what was referred to as the Bellman and the site was formerly part of the Cunliffe-Owen aircraft factory on the edge of Eastleigh airport (now Southampton International Airport).

Boats that Built Britain

# "Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter" - Cunliffe sails the 1904 built Cariad, an example of a Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, considered by many to be the finest sailing boat design ever

Burnelli UB-14

A modified version of the UB-14B design was built under licence in the United Kingdom by Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft powered by two Bristol Perseus XIVC radials as the Cunliffe-Owen OA-1.

Cunliffe-Owen

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen (1828–1894), English exhibition organizer and museum director

Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft

In 1940 they were selected to be one of the factories producing the Hawker Tornado, but that project was cancelled in 1941.

They were primarily a repair and overhaul shop, but also a construction shop for other companies' designs, notably the Supermarine Seafire.

On the outbreak of WW2, all of the factories capacity was switched to produce parts for the Supermarine Spitfire.

In 1943 they won a contract to produce the Supermarine Seafire, 118 Seafire Ibs incorporating the fuselage reinforcements were modified from Spitfire Vbs by the company and Air Training Service.

Cunliffe-Owen baronets

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen, father of the first Baronet, was Director of the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) from 1874 to 1893.

Denise Donatelli

In addition, she is heard on pianist Bill Cunliffe’s 2011 Christmas album "That Time of Year."

John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe

Crewe Hall and the rental income from the Crewe family's large estates in Cheshire and Staffordshire were inherited by his sister, Elizabeth Cunliffe-Offley.

Jon Cunliffe

Sir Jonathan Stephen Cunliffe, Kt, CB (born 2 June 1953) is a senior British civil servant, currently serving as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England with responsibility for financial stability.

Louis Keppel Hamilton

He commanded the Niger river flotilla which drove the Germans out of Dehane in December 1914, then led a party from the coast which transported a naval 12-pounder gun taken out of HMS Challenger on an epic journey of 640 miles along the Niger and Benue rivers, then sixty miles overland, to assist Brigadier-General Cunliffe in the taking of Garoua from a German garrison.

Nicholas Cunliffe-Lister, 3rd Earl of Swinton

Simon Charles Cunliffe-Lister (born 1977), now of Burton Agnes Hall

Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham

Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham, (1 January 1815 in Calverley Old Hall, Yorkshire – 2 February 1906 in Swinton Park, Yorkshire) was an English inventor and industrialist, notable for inventing the Lister nip comb.

Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe

According to author Peter L. Bernstein, Cunliffe criticized one of the committee's dissenting members, a young John Maynard Keynes, by stating that "Mr. Keynes, in commercial circles, is not considered to have any knowledge or experience in practical exchange or business problems."

Something of his style is conveyed by the following anecdote from Geoffrey Madan's Notebooks:Lord Cunliffe, giving evidence before a Royal Commission, at the special request of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, would only say that the Bank of England reserves were "very, very considerable".

William Brooks of Blackburn

In 1792 they founded Cunliffe Brooks Bank at Blackburn but at first manufacturing was the main activity.


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