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30-530: Founded in 1962 as the Canadian division of British Hawker Siddeley Group , the company assumed the assets of the A.V. Roe Canada Company Ltd. Hawker Siddeley Canada focused on manufacturing heavy rail cars (hopper and tank cars) and transit vehicles (subway cars, intercity railcars and streetcars). Major clients included: Hawker Siddeley Canada headquarters was in Mississauga , Ontario . Its formation in 1962 saw

60-463: A holding company known as Hawker Siddeley Group Plc after 1980. The group rationalised in the 1980s, focusing on railway engineering and signalling, industrial electronics and instrumentation and signalling equipment. Orenda Aerospace , the only remaining original company from the Avro Canada / Hawker Siddeley Canada era, although greatly diminished in size and scope of operations, became part of

90-801: A total of 1,814 were produced for the RAF, ending in July 1943. During the war, Armstrong Whitworth also produced 1,328 Avro Lancasters and designed the Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle reconnaissance bomber which was then made by A. W. Hawksley Ltd, part of the Hawker Siddeley group. Armstrong Whitworth built 281 Avro Lincolns at Baginton from 1945 to 1951. Then, during the 1950s Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft built many Gloster Meteor , Hawker Seahawk , Hawker Hunter and Gloster Javelin jet fighters at their Bitteswell and Baginton factories for delivery to

120-502: The Canadian government , renaming the company A.V. Roe Canada, commonly known as Avro Canada , initially a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley. Avro Canada underwent a major expansion through aircraft development and acquisition of aircraft engine, mining, steel, railway rolling stock, computers, electronics, and other businesses to become, by 1958, Canada's third largest company directly employing over 14,000 people and providing 45% of

150-545: The Magellan Aerospace Corporation . The late 1980s also saw Hawker Siddeley divest itself of much of its other North American heavy manufacturing enterprises. Its Talladega , Alabama -based TreeFarmer heavy equipment business was sold to Franklin Equipment in 1990 and its Canadian rail car production facilities were split between SNC-Lavalin and Bombardier in 1992. In 1992, Hawker Siddeley Group Plc

180-585: The Royal Air Force , the Royal Navy and the Royal Belgian Air Force . The Armstrong Whitworth Apollo airliner was unsuccessful and the company was eventually merged with another Hawker Siddeley company, Gloster Aircraft Company , to form Whitworth Gloster Aircraft in 1961. In 1963 Hawker Siddeley dropped the names of the component companies from its products, the last Armstrong Whitworth product,

210-748: The Royal Naval College in Greenwich , London. In 1948, Hawker Siddeley acquired a factory in Kingston upon Thames , Surrey , on the Richmond Road near Ham . This was to become their main aircraft factory and headquarters. In 1957, Hawker Siddeley purchased the Brush group of companies that included Brush Electrical Machines , and Brush Traction , which manufactures electromotive equipment and railway locomotives . The Brush prototype locomotives Falcon , and

240-519: The aero engine business, Armstrong Siddeley was merged with that of the Bristol Aero Engines to form Bristol Siddeley . In the late 1950s, the British government decided that with the decreasing number of aircraft contracts being offered, it was better to merge the existing companies, of which there were about 15 surviving at this point, into several much larger firms. Out of this decision, came

270-418: The "order" that all future contracts being offered had to include agreements to merge companies. In 1959, Folland Aircraft was acquired, followed by de Havilland Aircraft Company and Blackburn Aircraft in 1960. In 1963, the names of the constituent companies were dropped, with products being rebranded as " Hawker Siddeley " or " HS ". In this period, the company developed the first operational, and, by far,

300-453: The 1960s. In 1977, Hawker Siddeley became a founding component of the nationalised British Aerospace (BAe). Hawker Siddeley also operated in other industrial markets, such as locomotive building (through its ownership of Brush Traction ) and diesel engine manufacture (through its ownership of Lister Petter ). The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index . Hawker Siddeley Aircraft

330-570: The 1970s and 1980s at plants in Thunder Bay, Ontario and Trenton, Nova Scotia. Today the Thunder Bay plant is owned by Bombardier Transportation . The Trenton plant was sold in 1988 to Lavalin Industries and renamed TrentonWorks . The Greenbrier Companies acquired the plant in 1995 but during a serious contraction within the railcar sector in the mid 2000s closed the plant. The Thunder Bay plant primarily built passenger rail and transit equipment, while

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360-621: The Orange Line in 1980–81. Hawker Siddeley also manufactured much of the Toronto subway system's older rolling stock , the H5 and H6 models . The heavy rail manufacturing business, based in Mississauga and Thunder Bay , Ontario, are now part of Alstom . MBTA also bought a number of commuter rail coaches from the German firm Messerschmitt , thereby teaming Hawker Siddeley with its old World War II rival under

390-480: The Trenton plant built freight cars. See Halifax Shipyard - through the purchase of A.V. Roe Canada Hawker Siddeley Group Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production . Hawker Siddeley combined the legacies of several British aircraft manufacturers, emerging through a series of mergers and acquisitions as one of only two such major British companies in

420-536: The aircraft interests as the Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Company. When Vickers and Armstrong Whitworth merged in 1927 to form Vickers-Armstrongs , Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft and Armstrong Siddeley were bought out by J. D. Siddeley and did not join the new grouping. This left two aircraft companies with Armstrong in the name – Vickers-Armstrongs (usually known as just "Vickers") and "Armstrong-Whitworth". The most successful aircraft made by Armstrong-Whitworth in

450-468: The cancellation of the Arrow, the company began to unravel. In 1962, A.V. Roe Canada was dissolved and the remaining assets were transferred to the now defunct Hawker Siddeley Canada . In 1948, the company name was changed to Hawker Siddeley Group . The aircraft division became Hawker Siddeley Aviation (HSA) and the guided missile and space technology operations as Hawker Siddeley Dynamics (HSD). In 1959,

480-600: The company acquire control of several A.V. Roe Canada subsidiaries including the Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) as well as the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation (DOSCO) conglomerate, which included various steel mills, coal mines, manufacturing plants, and Halifax Shipyards . Consequently, Hawker Siddeley had two primary railcar manufacturing plants: Hawker Siddeley forced its DOSCO subsidiary to close money-losing coal mines and steel mills, subsequently expropriated by

510-458: The federal and Nova Scotia governments (see: Cape Breton Development Corporation and Sydney Steel Corporation ). Likewise, CC&F was forced to shed various assets. Halifax Shipyards was sold to Irving Shipbuilding Inc., a subsidiary of J.D. Irving Limited , in the 1990s. Hawker Siddeley Canada's operations were then acquired by Kingston -based UTDC (later sold to Bombardier Transportation of Montreal , Quebec ). SNC-Lavalin purchased

540-467: The futuristic but over-weight HS4000 'Kestrel' , were produced there. Other railway engineering assets were acquired, including Westinghouse Brake & Signal and the engine builder Mirrlees Blackstone , which came with the Brush businesses. In the early 1970s, Hawker Siddeley's Canada Car and Foundry subsidiary began to build rapid transit vehicles for the North American market. The first order

570-806: The group. During the Second World War, Hawker Siddeley was one of the United Kingdom's most important aviation concerns, producing numerous designs including the famous Hawker Hurricane fighter plane that, along with the Supermarine Spitfire , was Britain's front-line defence in the Battle of Britain . During this campaign, Hurricanes outnumbered all other British fighters combined in service, and were responsible for shooting down 55 per cent of all enemy aircraft destroyed. In 1945, Hawker Siddeley purchased Victory Aircraft of Malton , Ontario , Canada from

600-518: The inter-war period was the Siskin which first flew in 1919 and remained in RAF service until 1932, with 485 produced. In 1935, J. D. Siddeley retired and Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft was purchased by Hawker Aircraft , the new group becoming Hawker Siddeley Aircraft . The component companies of Hawker Siddeley co-operated, but operated as individual entities. In March 1936, the first Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber aircraft made its maiden flight and

630-570: The most successful VTOL jet aircraft, the Harrier family . This aircraft remained in production into the 1990s and remains in service. The Hawker Siddeley Nuclear Power Company built and operated the 10 kW JASON reactor in Langley, Berkshire (then in Buckinghamshire). The reactor was in operation there from 1959 to 1962 and generated a total of 1.4 MWh before being shut down and transported to

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660-471: The name is Hawker Siddeley Power Transformers. In 1993, British Aerospace sold its corporate jet product line to the American Raytheon Company . In 2006 the product line was sold to a new company to be known as Hawker Beechcraft , owned by Onex Partners and Goldman Sachs . The Hawker Siddeley name was not used to brand aircraft until 1963. Prior to then, aircraft were produced under

690-448: The name of the subsidiary company (e.g. Hawker Hurricane , Hawker Sea Hawk , Gloster Javelin , Gloster Meteor ). First flight date is in parentheses. The Canadian subsidiary produced rail cars, transit vehicles and engines (aircraft and ship). Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Company , or Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft , was a British aircraft manufacturer . Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft

720-531: The parent company's revenues. During its operation, Avro Canada aircraft (built) included the C102 Jetliner , CF-100 Canuck , CF-105 Arrow and VZ-9- AV Avrocar . Only the CF-100 fighter entered full-scale production. Other design projects (not built) included supersonic transport (SST) passenger aircraft, a mach-2 VTOL fighter, hovercraft, a jet engine-powered tank, and the hypersonic Space Threshold Vehicle. After

750-779: The railcar business but mothballed the TrentonWorks plant, which was later acquired by the Government of Nova Scotia and sold to Greenbrier . SNC-Lavalin sold the Thunder Bay plant to Bombardier Transportation and the Hawker Siddeley Canada name was ultimately dissolved in 2001. A partial list of products made by Hawker Siddeley Canada: Hawker-Siddeley Canada also manufactured aircraft engines for Avro Canada 's Orenda Engines and other aircraft manufacturers: Hawker-Siddeley Transportation also produced railway freight cars primarily for Canadian railways and leasing companies during

780-473: The same organisation. On 29 April 1977, as a result of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 , Hawker Siddeley Aviation and Dynamics were nationalised and merged with British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) and Scottish Aviation to form British Aerospace . However, HSA and HSD accounted for only 25% of the Hawker Siddeley business by this time, and the non-aviation and foreign interests were retained by

810-600: Was acquired by BTR plc for £1.5bn. This was led by Alan Jackson and Sir Owen Green who were the CEO and Chairman of BTR respectively during this time. Through a series of takeovers, the business units finally became part of Schneider Electric in 2014. In 1973, HS acquired the industrial electronics firm South Wales Switchgear . Later known as Aberdare Holdings, in 1992 this company was renamed Hawker Siddeley Switchgear (HSS). They have an Australian subsidiary, Hawker Siddeley Switchgear Australia . Another company which retains

840-667: Was established as the Aerial Department of the Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Company engineering group in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1912, and from c. 1914 to 1917 employed the Dutch aircraft designer Frederick Koolhoven (hence the "F.K." models). In 1920, Armstrong Whitworth acquired the engine and automobile manufacturer Siddeley-Deasy . The engine and automotive businesses of both companies were spun off as Armstrong Siddeley and

870-701: Was for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson line and consisted of 46 PA-3 cars numbers 724–769, which were largely based on the original hexagonal profile PA-1 & PA-2 cars designed and built by the St. Louis Car Company during 1966–67. Hawker Siddeley later sold the same general design to the MBTA in Boston for their Blue and Orange Lines . 70 48' cars were delivered to the Blue Line in 1978–80 and 120 65' cars were delivered to

900-509: Was formed in 1935 as a result of the purchase by Hawker Aircraft of the companies of J. D. Siddeley , the automotive and engine builder Armstrong Siddeley and the aircraft manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft . At this time, Hawker Siddeley also acquired A.V. Roe & Company (Avro), Gloster Aircraft Company (Gloster) and Air Training Services. The constituent companies continued to produce their own aircraft designs under their own name as well as sharing manufacturing work throughout

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