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The Gloucestershire Aircraft Company was formed in 1917 to build fighter planes for the First World War. An offshoot of a Hendon Company, it rented the Cheltenham works of H.H. Martyn & Co., architectural engineers, where skilled woodworkers were available to build the wooden airframes.


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