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Auction: 18019 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World Online Auction
Lot: 300

Great Britain: Whitehead Aircraft (1917) Limited, 1/- deferred ordinary shares, 19[18], #15, signed by James Whitehead as director, vignette of airfield flanked by small biplanes, underprint of biplane below, yellow and black, printed by Waterlow & Sons. Founded by John Whitehead in 1915 but reorganised in 1917 when given a large contract to build Sopwiths and Farmans 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. Rusty paper clip marks in centre otherwise AVF.

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