Humber Limited
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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. |
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Country | Great Britain |
City | Humber Works, Stoke, Coventry, in the County of Warwick |
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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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