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... aerial view of the A.V. Roe factory in Malton Ontario circa 1954.''' A.V. Roe Canada was first based at the Victory aircraft plant in Malton Ontario. Victory aircraft had been a Crown corporation in Canada ... the end of hostilities. Dobson was managing director of A.V. Roe and Company Limited based in Manchester England. The deal made was for A.V. Roe to commit to designing and building all manner of ...

... war three major aircraft manufacturing companies constituted the greater part of the Canadian aircraft industry : A. V. Roe at Malton, Ontario, Canadair at Montreal and De Havilland at Toronto. These companies entered into ... phase. Orenda Engines, a part of the A. V. Roe organization, designed and produced large quantities of turbojet engines, notably the Orenda, but including the Chinook and the Iroquois. The latter, a tremendously powerful engine ...

... = float:right; valign:top; title = Philip Lapp titlestyle = image = Image:Phillapp1958.jpg imagestyle = caption = Philip A. Lapp circa 1958 captionstyle = headerstyle = background: ccf; labelstyle = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 ... Philip A. Lapp - Canadian engineers (1961)''' SPAR After the purchase of A.V. Roe Canada by De Havilland parent Hawker Siddeley, Lapp proposed that the two company's merge their advanced projects office. A.V. Roe's ...

... title, a Canadian company. Assuming that this was a reasonable argument for having left A.V. Roe out in the cold, it didn’t make allowances for the fact that Canadair already had a robust stack ... A.V. Roe in England, whose Frankenstein subsidiary was leading the development of British space suits. Image:1962 Frankenstein.jpg thumb left '''British Pressure suit and advertisement for Frankenstein Beaufort, later part of A.V. Roe ...

... Atmosphere, D. J. Shapland (A. V. Roe) Commonwealth University Participation, T. R. F. Nonweiler (Queen's University, Belfast) Saturday, August 29. Recovery of Earth Satellites, D. E. Bailey (A. V. Roe) Initial Programme for Commonwealth Spaceflight Project, S.K. Kumar and R. L. Macarthy (Indian Astronautical Society) Canadian Facilities by Philip A. Lapp and Arthur E. Maine Canadian Facilities , P.A. Lapp and A ...

... ."'' Diefenbaker's contempt for Avro is plain to see in his memoir. He stated that, ''"A.V. Roe since the end of World War 2 had lived and grown rich on Canadian defence ... _Row_1959.JPG thumb right '''A.V. Roe Malton Ontario, Spring 1959, CF-105 Interceptors being cut up. ''' The original plan was for A.V. Roe to build approximately 500 Arrows at a cost of $2M each ... .5M if the Sparrow II was added, and $7.8M each without. ref 8 The A.V. Roe company's actual figures were $609M total, or $4.4M each for 137 aircraft, if ...

... ) outsells Avro (1958) by almost ten to one and employs 37,000 people: but A.V. Roe Canada was a conglomerate of over 40 companies many of which were in the business of processing ... .jpg thumb right '''Avro Arrow stories in Canadian newspapers''' Some Statistics In relative terms the A.V. Roe layoffs of February 1959 dwarf anything that has ever happened in the United States or ... as many workers as Avro. Image:AvroLayoff.jpg 500px '''An image of 1,300 A.V. Roe Canada employees in February 1959. After the announcement of the layoffs from the cancellation of ...

... banned the export of capital from the UK and consequently the large corporate concerns like A.V. Roe and De Havilland could only continue their Canadian ventures by offering "in kind" services; which ... opportunities. Image:AVRoeCanada.jpg right thumb '''A.V. Roe Canada in the 1950s''' In spite of these handicaps, by the summer of 1958, the UK parent of A.V. Roe Canada , Hawker Siddeley, was publicly trumpeting ...

... left A.V. Roe reeling, and its parent company in England, Hawker-Siddeley, blindsided in the aftermath. Big changes were inevitable and on December 18th 1959 Hawker Siddeley purchased DeHavilland. This was a massive ... cancellation, one of the facilities now underutilized at the Avro Malton airport location, was the A.V. Roe Applied Research division. Phil Lapp had worked there in the 1950s so when Avro and ...

... played my game. Then a group of prior apprentices had gone out to Canada and were working at AVRO, or A.V. Roe, as it was in those days, A.V. Roe to start with and then it became AVRO, AVRO Canada. So I thought that was a good thing to do, so ... . So that was one of the facets. The use of the Saturn V, Saturn IV-B upper-stage, as a space lab, we got involved in all those designs, and that was ...

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