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Alderson
C.H.M. Alderson
Farnborough
Aviation Works
Christopher Henry Metcalf Alderson (b. early 1855 in Thornby
Aikton, Cumberland, d. 1 April 1929 in Kent) was a market gardener by profession. Interested in aviation since his
first balloon flight in 1880, he was an early member of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain and the Aeronautical Institute
and Club; Alderson was responsible for restoring many of John Stringfellow’s early models.
The son of
John Alderson, a cotton manufacturer, and his wife Bessie, Christopher was originally apprenticed as a draper in Carlisle,
but in the 1870’s moved with his younger brother Hope and his now widowed mother to Finchley, where the brothers set
up as wholesale florists. By 1891 the three had moved to Farnborough, and following Bessie’s death in 1896 and Christopher’s
marriage, the brothers took neighbouring houses in Hilda Vale Road, Farnborough. Alderson formed the Farnborough Aviation
Works at Farnborough, Kent, in 1909. The company built the Candler Stella in 1909 and, in March 1910, Alderson was reported to be building a monoplane of his own designand. Certainly by 1911 Alderson
was styling himself as an 'Aeronautical Engineer Manufacture of Aeroplanes' being supported by private means. In August of
1910 he was also reported to be building a biplane to be named The Brea. Nothing further is known of these projects.
Company References
- British Aircraft Before The Great War, Michael H. Goodall
and Albert E. Tagg (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001)
- http://www.st-augustines.org.uk/roundabout/jun05.pdf
- Aviation World, 2015/1 (Air-Britain Publications)
- An Ancient Air - The Biography of John Stringfellow,
Harald Penrose (Airlife Publishing, 1988)
Project Data 
Project No | Type
No | Name | Alternative Name(s) | Year | Spec
(Requirement) | Status | Qty | Description | References |
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Monoplane | | 1910 | |
Proto |
1 |
(1S, 1E?) monoplane | 1,2,3 |
Project References
- British Aircraft Before The Great War,
Michael H. Goodall and Albert E. Tagg (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001)
- British Aircraft 1809-1914,
Peter Lewis (Putnam, 1962)
- Air Britain Aviation World 2015/1 (Air-Britain Publications)
Total Alderson Production
1
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