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Auction: 9027 - Bonds & Shares of the World
Lot: 430

Whitehead Aircraft (1917) Limited, £1 ordinary shares, 1918, signed by J. Whitehead and Digby Whitehead as directors, vignette of airfield flanked by small biplanes, underprint of biplane below, green and black, heavy centre fold, good fine. Founded by John Whitehead in 1915 but reorganised in 1917 when given a large contract to build Sopwiths and Farmans under licence. Liquidated in 1919 when their War contracts ceased. John Whitehead made moves in 1920 to manufacture the Whitehead-Thanet motor car but this also came to nothing. Estimate £ 120

Sold for
£100