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Handley Page began manufacturing aeroplanes in a small factory in
Barking, Essex in 1909. Handley Page Limited was founded by
Frederick Handley Page (later Sir Frederick) as the United
Kingdom's first publicly traded aircraft manufacturing company. Sir
Frederick declined to allow his company to be merged into the two
large 'forced marriages' of aircraft manufacturing companies in the
1960s. It failed to survive alone, and went into voluntary
liquidation and ceased to exist in 1970. During the First World War
Handley Page produced a series of heavy bombers for the Royal Navy
to bomb the German Zeppelin yards, with the ultimate intent of
bombing Berlin in revenge for the Zeppelin attacks on London.
Handley Page had been asked by the Admiralty to produce a "bloody
paralyser of an aeroplane". These aircraft included the O/100 of
1915, the O/400 of 1918 and the four-engined V/1500 with the range
to reach Berlin. The V/1500 only just reached operational service
as the war ended in 1918. The real success of the Company came
during the Second World War with the magnificent and robust Halifax
bomber. In all, more than 6,000 of them were produced, or more than
40 per cent of Britain's total heavy-bomber power. In the bombing
operations alone, approximately 76,000 sorties were flown and
nearly a quarter of a million tons of bombs were dropped on to
enemy targets. Bomber Command had no less than seventy-six Halifax
squadrons in action at the time of its peak strength.
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