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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 10

An early share certificate for the Whitehead Aircraft Company

Deferred Ordinary Share Certificate for Whitehead Aircraft (1917) Limited, 340mm x 260mm, with attractive aero-based design, Certificate number 1985, to Edward Woodruff of Nonnington, Dover, dated 16 October 1918, generally very fine



John Alexander Whitehead founded the Whitehead Aircraft Company in 1915 and manufactured the Whitehead Comet Fighter during the Great War from his factories in Richmond and Feltham.

Besides his aircraft, he established Mother's day in England. The first was held on Tuesday, 8 August 1916, when Whitehead entertained the mothers of 400 soldiers, sailors and airmen at Hanworth Park, Feltham; sold with copied research and two related postcards.

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£130