Saunders-Roe, also known as Saro, was a British aerospace and marine-engineering company based at Columbine Works in East Cowes on the Isle of Wight. It took that name in 1929 when Alliott Verdon Roe and John Lord took a controlling interest in the aircraft and boat builders S. E. Saunders, whose founder Sam Saunders had developed the Consuta plywood material used in marine and aviation craft. The company concentrated on flying boats, among them the Cutty Sark, Cloud, London and Lerwick, and later built the SR.A/1 jet flying boat, the Princess airliner, the SR.53 mixed-power interceptor and the Skeeter helicopter. It demonstrated the first practical hovercraft, the SR.N1, in 1959, built hovercraft up to the SR.N6, and worked on the Black Knight and Black Arrow rockets. In 1959 its helicopter and hovercraft interests were taken over by Westland Aircraft, and the firm also made lifeboats, powerboats, military canoes, hydrofoils and bus bodies.
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Saunders-Roe Limited, also known as Saro, was a British aerospace and marine-engineering company based at Columbine Works, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.
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The name was adopted in 1929 after Alliott Verdon Roe (see Avro) and John Lord took a controlling interest in the aircraft and boat-builders SE Saunders.
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Saunders-Roe Limited, also known as Saro, was a British aerospace and marine-engineering company based at Columbine Works, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.
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The Saro A17 Cutty Sark was a British amphibious aircraft from the period between World War I and World War II, built by the British firm Saunders-Roe (also known as SARO).
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The Saro Cloud was a British passenger amphibian flying boat designed and built by Saunders-Roe as the A.19.
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The Saro A.21 Windhover was a British amphibious aircraft from the period between World War I and World War II, constructed by Saunders-Roe, or Saro.
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The Saunders Roe A.27 London was a British military biplane flying boat built by the Saunders Roe company.
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The Saro A.33 was a British prototype flying boat built by Saunders-Roe Limited in response to a British Air Ministry Specification R.2/33 and in competition with the Short Sunderland.
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The Saunders-Roe A.36 Lerwick was a British flying boat built by Saunders-Roe Limited (Saro).
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The Saunders Roe A.37 Shrimp was a 1930s British two-seat four-engined experimental flying boat built by Saunders-Roe Limited ("Saro") at Cowes.
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The Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 is a prototype flying boat fighter aircraft designed and built by British seaplane manufacturer Saunders-Roe.
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The Saunders A.4 Medina was a British flying boat built by S.E. Saunders at East Cowes, Isle of Wight.
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As with Saunders' other wooden aircraft, Valkyrie's hull was covered with Consuta sewn stress-bearing plywood.
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The Saunders Kittiwake was a British amphibian flying-boat built by S. E. Saunders at East Cowes, Isle of Wight.
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The Saunders-Roe SR.53 was a British prototype interceptor aircraft of mixed jet and rocket propulsion developed for the Royal Air Force (RAF) by Saunders-Roe in the early 1950s.
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It was an enlarged derivative of the Saunders-Roe SR.53, which was itself an experimental combined jet-and-rocket interceptor aircraft.
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The Saro P.531 (or Saunders-Roe P.531) is a British all-metal five-seat helicopter designed and built by Saunders-Roe Limited (Saro).
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The Saunders Helicogyre was a 1920s experimental helicopter designed by Vittorio Isacco and built by S.E. Saunders Limited for the British Air Ministry.
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The concept has its origins in the work of British engineer and inventor Christopher Cockerell, who succeeded in convincing figures within the services and industry, including those within British manufacturer Saunders-Roe.
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The SR.N2 was a hovercraft built by Westland and Saunders-Roe.
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The British Hovercraft Corporation SR.N3 was a 37.5 ton hovercraft originally designed by Saunders-Roe.
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By the time that the vehicle's first trials took place in early 1968, Saunders-Roe had merged with Vickers' hovercraft division to form the British Hovercraft Corporation, who continued development.
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The Saunders-Roe SR.N5 (or Warden class) was a medium-sized hovercraft which first flew in 1964.
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The Saunders-Roe (later British Hovercraft Corporation) SR.N6 hovercraft (also known as the Winchester class) was essentially a larger version of the earlier SR.N5 series.
View the Source Black Knight (Wikipedia)
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Design work on what would become the Black Knight launch vehicle commenced in 1955, being performed by the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) and British manufacturer Saunders-Roe.
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Development of Black Arrow was largely performed by the prime contractor, the British aerospace company Saunders-Roe
View the Source Saunders Severn (Wikipedia)
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The Saunders A.7 Severn was the last flying boat designed by S.E. Saunders Ltd before the takeover by A.V. Roe and John Lord late in 1928 that produced the Saunders-Roe, or "Saro", company.
View the Source Saunders T.1 (Wikipedia)
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The Saunders T.1 was the first aircraft built by the Saunders Company, a two-seat single-engined biplane with unusual monocoque fuselage construction.
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The Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess was a British flying boat aircraft developed and built by Saunders-Roe at their Cowes facility on the Isle of Wight.
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The Saunders-Roe Duchess also known as the model P.131 was a British design for a large jet-powered flying boat envisaged by Saunders-Roe, based in Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
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Production was by Saunders-Roe, which made five for the United States Marine Corps and five for Helicop-Air of Paris.
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