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HANDLEY PAGE

Sir Frederick Handley Page was an English aircraft designer. He was born in 1875 at Cheltenham, Gloucester and died in 1962. Formerly an engineer, he turned his attention to aeronautics in 1907 and after two years of experimenting started his business as an aeronautical engineer and designer. In 1909 he founded the first British aircraft manufacturing firm, Handley Page, at Barking. In 1912 he moved his works to Cricklewood. During the Great War he turned his works over to the British government, and designed several new types of aircraft, including the first twin-engined bomber. He was awarded the CBE in 1918 and knighted in 1942.
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