Aviation and Aerospace Archives Initiative
History: In 1909 Walter Lawson Adams, proprietor of a business designing and manufacturing boat and hydroplane engines in Redbridge, Hampshire, joined with Ronald Charteris, grandson of the 7th Earl of Wemyss and March and an early aviator, to form Aeroplane Engine Co. In 1910 Granville Bradshaw became the firm’s chief designer. The firm’s name subsequently changed […]