404:, wrote that they could come back to Airspeed and as an "obsolescent type" might not be so easy to sell again. He got a reputation as "unscrupulous" for resisting the auditors' attempt to write them down on the books because, with growing talk of war, civil aircraft of any size would "sell immediately". As the six were worth nearly twenty thousand pounds, writing them down to half that would add £10,000 to their loss, making the firm's proposed share issue a very unattractive investment. Shute could see from his office the four hundred workers in the "shop" with families depending on their jobs. In 1936, most of the unsold Couriers and Envoys were sold and found their way to the
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Richardson, Ltd., of that firm's holding of Airspeed ordinary shares. Airspeed retained its identity as a separate company though as a wholly-owned subsidiary of de Havilland.
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Britain for currency reasons. Shute and a Fokker representative "who was well accustomed to methods of business in the Balkans", spent three weeks in Athens but did not close the deal. Shute recommended reading his novel
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Limited was fully merged with de Havilland who then cancelled further development of the Ambassador, although the Ambassador fleet continued in service with smaller airlines such as
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2491:Rollason Aircraft and Engines
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1791:Economy of the United Kingdom
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1189:Norway, Nevil Shute (1954).
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164:Aeronautical engineering
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2364:Heston Aircraft Company
2314:Foster, Wikner Aircraft
2294:Fairey Aviation Company
2274:Edgar Percival Aircraft
2222:Comper Aircraft Company
1170:Jackson, A. J. (1987).
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2369:Hewlett & Blondeau
2227:Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft
2006:Safran Landing Systems
1856:Military Air Solutions
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2299:Fane Aircraft Company
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1921:Dunlop Aircraft Tyres
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913:"Airspeed (1934) Ltd"
773:troop-carrying glider
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2389:Lakes Flying Company
2127:Austin Motor Company
2092:The Airscrew Company
1219:Phipp, Mike (2007).
1109:Flight International
998:, pp. 225, 229.
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542:Handley Page Halifax
521:3,800 AS51 and AS58
410:Spanish Nationalists
59:improve this article
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2441:D. Napier & Son
2426:Matra Marconi Space
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1956:Hybrid Air Vehicles
1941:GE Aviation Systems
1936:General Dynamics UK
1931:Finmeccanica UK Ltd
1532:AS.51, AS.52, AS.53
1042:on 20 October 2012.
1010:, pp. 234–237.
986:, pp. 219–221.
974:, pp. 213–216.
950:, pp. 202–207.
732:– (18 October 1940)
528:were built for the
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2097:Airship Industries
2036:Thales Air Defence
1971:Marshall Aerospace
1966:Lockheed Martin UK
1909:Technical Services
1834:Astrium Satellites
1223:. Stroud: Tempus.
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