Bradshaw
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
Project Data
Project No | Type
No | Name | Alternative Name(s) | Year | Spec | Status | Qty | Description | References | | | Monoplane | | 1909 | | Proto | 1 | 1S, 1E monoplane | 1 |
Project References - British Aircraft
Before The Great War, Michael H. Goodall and Albert E. Tagg (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001)
Total Bradshaw Production 1
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