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Nieuport & General Aircraft
The Nieuport & General Aircraft Company Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer, established during the First World War to build French Nieuport aircraft under license, which closed down in 1920.
==History==
In November 1916, Samuel Waring, the owner of the furniture manufacturer Waring & Gillow, established the Nieuport & General Aircraft Company at Cricklewood, London to build the French Nieuport 11 fighter under license.〔Gunston 2005, p.33.〕〔''Flight'' 16 November 1916, p.1016.〕 It built 50 Nieuport 17bis fighters before production changed to the more capable Sopwith Camel,〔〔Bruce 1976, p. 152.〕 building 400 Camels, with 100 Sopwith Snipes being delivered postwar.〔Bruce 1957, pp.591–592.〕〔Robertson 1970, pp. 156–157.〕
In 1917, an official Inquiry (the Burbidge Report) into the activities of the Royal Aircraft Factory lead to design and construction of aircraft at Farnborough being stopped, and the Factory's design teams being broken up. Nieuport & General took advantage of this situation to hire Henry Folland, the designer of the S.E.5 fighter, as chief designer.〔Bruce 1965, p.168.〕 Folland designed a number of aircraft, with the Nieuport Nighthawk fighter being ordered into production in August 1918,〔Mason 1992, p.150.〕 but the failure of the engine chosen to power it together with the end of the First World War, lead to production being ended and the Nighthawk not entering service.
Nieuport & General was closed down in August 1920, together with the other aircraft companies owned by Waring, British Aerial Transport (BAT) and the Alliance Aeroplane Company.〔Bruce 1957, p.321.〕〔''Flight'' 19 August 1920, p.907.〕 Folland was hired by the Gloster Aircraft Company, continuing development of the Nighthawk.〔James 1971, pp.7–9.〕
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