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Bett
James Murray Bett was born in Sydenham in 1870. His company,
James M. Bett & Co., of the Beverley Aeroplane Works, Barnes, Surrey, was registered in 1910 and proposed
an aeroplane with two 20 h.p. coupled engines. This was covered by Patents 27082/1909,7333/1910 and 22001/1910 in conjunction
with T.C. Murphy. The machine did not materialize and nothing more appears to be known about Bett & Co or the Beverley
Aeroplane Works.
Bett also claimed to be the proprietor of the "Dreadnought" Rotary Engine Syndicate
which, despite many letters extoling its virtues in Flight during 1910, also went no further. From 1911, Bett appears to have
played no further part in aviation; he died on 15 May 1932 in Essex.
In 1914 Ms Dolphens, Flamand and Lenaerts
from Belgium took over the Beverley Aeroplane Works along with the Eagle Motor Manufacturing Co (also located in
the Beverley Works). Dolphens was the engineer with Flamand and Lenaerts the financiers. The company specialised in precision
engineering and during the First World War built under licence the French Le Rhone air-cooled rotary aero engines.
Project Data 
Project No | Type No | Name | Alternative
Name(s) | Year | Spec | Status | Qty | Description | References |
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Not Identified | | 1909 |
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Proj |
0 |
1E aircraft | (1) |
Project References - British Aircraft
Before The Great War, Michael H. Goodall and Albert E. Tagg (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001)
Total Bett Production 0
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