Humber Limited

This company made motor cars, and branched into aero engines and apparently aeroplanes too although sources seem to differ.

Made monoplanes, 1910-1912, originally Blériot-licensed and then original designs of monoplanes and biplanes; in WWI, mass-produced Avro 504A.

Designers Hubert Le Blon, Roger Sommer (biplanes), and Capt. Thomas Turpin Lovelace.

This company is in en.wp as w:Humber Limited. It's not clear whether it's the same as w:Humber Motorcycles

Location: Humber Works, Stoke, Coventry, in the County of Warwick

Patents associated with organization named Humber Limited

• Patent GB-1910-3438 (Inventors: Thomas Turpin Lovelace, English title: Improvements to the Steering Mechanism of Flying Machines, Filing date: 1910-02-11, Applicant firm: Humber Limited)

People affiliated with Humber Limited

• Thomas Turpin Lovelace (Occupations: Military • Navy • Engineer?)

Sources

• Gunston, 1993, p151
• Gunston, 2005, p226
• SD156

Names	Humber Limited, Humber Motor Co.
Country	Great Britain
City	Humber Works, Stoke, Coventry, in the County of Warwick
Affiliations
Keywords	motor cars, aero engines
Started aero	1910
Ended aero	1918?
Key people	Hubert Le Blon, Roger Sommer, Thomas Turpin Lovelace
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