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Bradshaw

G. Bradshaw


History

Granville Eastwood Bradshaw was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1887. Bradshaw's early work was involved with the pioneering of flight and in 1909, while a member of the Midland Aero Club, designed a monoplane powered by a JAP motorcycle engine. The following year he joined Star Engineering, where he designed the Star Monoplane including the engine. He then started to work on aero-engines and was the co-founder of the All-British Engine Company (later ABC Motors then Walton Motors).

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his war work in 1918.[2]

Following the war, the company and Bradshaw concentrated on motorcycles. When the company re-organized in 1920, Bradshaw became a consultant which allowed him to sell his designs to other companies. He designed a number of engines for Panther motorcycles. His biggest seller was selling patents for gambling machines, although he lost all the money he made in further business deals.

Granville Eastwood Bradshaw OBE, AFRAeS died in June 1969 at Hitchin in Hertfordshire

Company References
  1. British Aircraft Before The Great War, Michael H. Goodall and Albert E. Tagg (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001)
  2. http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/Transport/planes/Star.htm




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   Monoplane  1909  Proto 1 1S, 1E monoplane 1

 

Project References
  1. British Aircraft Before The Great War, Michael H. Goodall and Albert E. Tagg (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001)



Production Data

   Total Bradshaw Production     1   

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