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The British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, Ltd was founded in February 1910 by Sir George White, chairman of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company, along with his son Stanley and his brother Samuel, to commercially exploit the fast-growing aviation sector.
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- Standard Aero Engine Works
- Current Aviation Industry in Manitoba
As a means of celebrating the role of engineering and geoscience in the development of Manitoba and APEGM's history, the Heritage Committee created a series of articles that link water to the economic and social development of the province. This article, while somewhat linked to water, deals with the development of the aviation industry in Manitoba...
The gold rush created the need and the profit potential for aircraft to fly men and machines to Red Lake. This was the economic incentive that led James A Richardson to get involved with commercial aviation. In 1926 he founded Western Canadian Airways (WCA) initially focused on Red Lake. However, over the next few years WCA helped open up the miner...
The need for aircraft maintenance also gave rise to the creation of Standard Aero Engine Works in 1938. This was an offshoot of the Standard Machine Works founded by Charles Pearce and William Bucknell in Winnipeg in 1911. Like the MacDonald brothers, they started to repair and overhaul aircraft engines in the late 1920s. Today it is known as Stand...
From these humble beginnings the aviation industry has grown dramatically. In 2010 Manitoba based aerospace industry revenues exceeded $1.6 billion employing an estimated 5,300 persons. They work on aerospace manufacturing and repair & overhaul which accounts for approximately 80% of industry revenues with aerospace training and services providing ...
This government publication featured success stories of Manitoba manufacturing, including Winnipeg's MacDonald Brothers Aircraft Limited, which assembled Avro Anson twin-engined aircraft to be used in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
Bristol Aerospace was founded in 1930 in Winnipeg as airplane maker MacDonald Brothers. In 1954, the company was acquired by UK company, Bristol and became the Canadian subsidiary of the company.
Bristol Aerospace began in 1930 as the MacDonald Brothers Aircraft Company. Brothers Jim and Grant MacDonald moved to Winnipeg from Nova Scotia in 1904 to start a sheet metal business.
In 1930, the brothers were attracted to the aircraft industry, forming the MacDonald Brothers Aircraft Limited (later known as Bristol Aerospace) to manufacture floats for aircraft of Western Canada Airways. The firm became one of the world’s largest makers of seaplane floats.
He then joined MacDonald Brothers Aircraft Company, a wartime builder of training aircraft. In 1942, he became its General Manager and remained with the firm as it became Bristol Aerospace. He was President of the firm (1967-1981).
