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3 unusual facts about Siddeley-Deasy Siniai


Siddeley Tiger

The only aircraft in which the Siddeley Tiger flew was the ill-fated prototype of the twin-engined Siddeley-Deasy Siniai of which three were planned to be produced.

Siddeley-Deasy Siniai

The Siniai was powered by two 500 hp Siddeley Tiger water cooled engines, a new V-12 design produced by combining two straight-6 Siddeley Pumas onto a single crankshaft.

The Siniai was the third and last aircraft design produced by the team led by John Lloyd and F.M.Green at Siddeley-Deasy before they were rebadged by merger as the Sir W.G.Armstrong Aircraft Company.


A.V. Roe

A.V. Roe Canada - known as Avro Canada - Canadian subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley (the parent of Avro)

Armstrong Siddeley Adder

Adder was flight tested in the rear-turret position of the Avro Lancaster III SW342, the aircraft also having been previously modified and used for icing trials of the Mamba by Armstrong Siddeley's Flight Test Department at Bitteswell.

Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major

An Armstrong Siddeley Genet Major powers the Southern Martlet owned and operated by the Shuttleworth Collection and flies regularly throughout the summer months.

Hawker Siddeley

In 1945, the Hawker Siddeley purchased Victory Aircraft of Malton, Ontario, Canada from the Canadian government, renaming the company A.V. Roe Canada, commonly known as Avro Canada, initially a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley.

Siddeley

Hawker Siddeley, was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production

Siddeley-Deasy, was a British automobile, engine and aircraft company based in Coventry in the early 20th century

John Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth, was a captain of the automobile industry in Britain

Armstrong Siddeley, was a British engineering group that operated during the first half of the 20th century

Sumburgh Airport

31 July 1979: Crash of Dan-Air Flight 0034, a Hawker Siddeley 748 series 1 (registration G-BEKF) operating an oil industry support flight.

Tracked Hovercraft

One thing that did surface was that Hawker Siddeley and Tracked Hovercraft were in the process of entering a bid for the GO-Urban system in Toronto.

Vickers

Further diversification occurred in 1901 with the acquisition of a proposed business which was incorporated as The Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company and in 1905 the goodwill and patent rights of the Siddeley car.

Whitley plant

The Rootes Group, by then owned by Chrysler Europe, purchased the 187 acre site from Hawker Siddeley Dynamics in 1969 for the purpose of centralising all its design and engineering teams onto one site.


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