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Auction: 14017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 497

Whitehead Aircraft (1917) Limited, 1/- deferred ordinary shares, 19(18), signed by John Whitehead as director, vignette of airfield flanked by small biplanes, underprint of biplane below, yellow and black, printed by Waterlow & Sons, together with an option certificate for shares in hawker Siddeley Aircraft Co. Ltd., very fine. (2)

Founded by John Whitehead in 1915 but reorganised in 1917 when given a large contract to build Sopwith and Farman aircraft under licence. Liquidated in 1919 when their War contracts ceased. John Whitehead made moves in 1920 to manufacture the Whitehead-Thanet motor car but this also came to nothing.

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