Company Name:

English Electric Company Ltd

Formed:

1918

Sites:

Lytham Preston Samlesbury Warton

1918:

English Electric Company Ltd formed from amalgamation of Dick Kerr, Phoenix Dynamo, Coventry Ordnance Works Ltd

1926:

Aircraft Activities Abandoned

1938:

Aircraft work restarts with Hampden aircraft order for RAF expansion programme

1958:

Aircraft division separated from parent company as English Electric Aviation Ltd

1960:

English Electric becomes part of British Aircraft Corporation

1964:

English Electric become division of BAC