12 Facts About Hawker Siddeley

Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production.

Hawker Siddeley combined the legacies of several British aircraft manufacturers, emerging through a series of mergers and acquisitions as one of only two such major British companies in the 1960s.

In 1977, Hawker Siddeley became a founding component of the nationalised British Aerospace .

Hawker Siddeley operated in other industrial markets, such as locomotive building and diesel engine manufacture .

Hawker Siddeley Aircraft was formed in 1935 as a result of the purchase by Hawker Aircraft of the companies of J D Siddeley, the automotive and engine builder Armstrong Siddeley and the aircraft manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft.

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In 1959, the aero engine business, Armstrong Hawker Siddeley was merged with that of the Bristol Aero Engines to form Bristol Hawker Siddeley.

In 1948, Hawker Siddeley acquired a factory in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, on the Richmond Road near Ham.

In 1957, Hawker Siddeley purchased the Brush group of companies that included Brush Electrical Machines, and Brush Traction, which manufactures electromotive equipment and railway locomotives.

Hawker Siddeley later sold the same general design to the MBTA in Boston for their Blue and Orange Lines.

Hawker Siddeley manufactured much of the Toronto subway system's older rolling stock, the H5 and H6 models.

Late 1980s saw Hawker Siddeley divest itself of much of its other North American heavy manufacturing enterprises.

In 2006 the product line was sold to a new company to be known as Hawker Siddeley Beechcraft, owned by Onex Partners and Goldman Sachs.