Roy Chadwick, CBE, (April 30 1893 - August 23 1947) was an aircraft designer for Avro. Born at Marsh Hall Farm, Farnworth near Widnes, son of the mechanical engineer Charles Chadwick, he was the Chief Designer for the Avro Company and was responsible for practically all of their aeroplane designs. He is famous in particular for designing the Avro Lancaster bomber, its follow-up Avro Lincoln and preliminary designs of the Avro Vulcan V bomber. Wikipedia
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Roy Chadwick 's Avro BABY can justly claim to be the ancestor of THE LIGHT AEROPLANE. It had a 35hp water cooled engine, a wing span of 25ft and a gross weight of only 870 lbs (395kg) It had a maximum speed of 80 mph. homepages.manx.net/mdove
Inventors and engineers have included Francis Egerton, Third Duke of Bridgewater, James Brindley, Professor Tom Kilburn, Sir Charles Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce, Roy Chadwick, George Bradshaw and Daniel Adamson. www.manchester2002-uk.com/celebs/engineers2.html