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Plaque

Short Brothers

Erection date: 17/9/2013

Inscription

The Short brothers: Horace 1872 - 1917, Eustace 1875 - 1932, Oswald 1883 - 1969, aeronautical engineers, worked in arches 75 and 81.
English Heritage

Site: Short Brothers (1 memorial)

SW11, Queenstown Road, Petrol station

We hunted for this plaque and couldn't find it but our colleague with sharper eyes, Alan Patient, spotted it. English Heritage have a of this site with two fully inflated balloons.

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Pioneering aeronautical engineers. Oswald and Eustace formed a partnership in...

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