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Auction: 1004 - Bonds & Shares of The World
Lot: 516

W.L.Aero Engine Co. Ltd., (amended to read The All British (Engine) Co. Ltd.), £1 shares, fully paid, 191(3), no.39, ornate border, black, title amended by hand in red, about very fine. Estimate £ 80 Organised in 1912 at Weybridge, Surrey. Changed its name to All British in 1913. Manufactured a variety of aero and motorcycle engines, under the direction of Granville Bradshaw, progressing to complete motorcycles in the following year. In 1919 Sopwith purchased the company so that he could diversify and make up for lost production of aircraft during WW1 and the company name was again changed to A.B.C.Motors Ltd. A light car was manufactured from 1919. Motorcycle production ceased in 1923.

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