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Timeline of British aerospace companies since 1955

1950s					1960s										1970s										1980s										1990s										2000s
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Short Brothers and Harland Ltd.																							Short Brothers Ltd.															Short Brothers plc [7]
Handley Page
F. G. Miles							Beagle Aircraft[1]
Auster
Scottish Aviation [2]																						British Aerospace (BAe)																						BAE Systems
Hawker Siddeley [3]						Hawker Siddeley Aviation Hawker Siddeley Dynamics
Blackburn
Avro
de Havilland
Folland
Vickers-Armstrongs					British Aircraft Corporation (BAC)[5]
English Electric [4]
Bristol
Hunting
The General Electric Company (GEC)													The Marconi Company																				GEC-Marconi/Marconi Electronic Systems
The English Electric Company [6]																																												Marconi plc
Government owned from 1966 to liquidation Purchased rights for various Beagle and Handley-Page designs from the liquidator. Comprising Hawker Aircraft, Gloster Aircraft Company and Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft. English Electric Aircraft, a subsidiary of the English Electric Company. BAC comprised the aviation interests of the companies that formed it, and wholly-owned Hunting Aircraft. GEC purchased EE and with it The Marconi Company and EE's shareholding in BAC, through its subsidiary EE Aircraft. Part of Bombardier inc.

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