Short Brothers / Bombardier

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2023.45
Level of description: Fonds
Title: Short Brothers / Bombardier
Scope and content: Mainly technical manuals produced by Short Brothers & Harland Ltd to include: type record books for SCI XG905, SA.4 Sperrin, S23 Empire, 22/36, Sealand Amphibian, Indian Navy; BEA stress analysis; Griffon Mk.57 technical information; ER.143 pilots notes; SC.1/ER 143 prototype notes, technical reports & flight control system handbook; Short Nimbus fuselage drawings; photo album belonging to J.E. Steed, Production Manager, Light Aircraft Division (1960-61); photo album entitled "A Photographic Record of Short Aircraft designed and constructed by Shorts...1908-1944"; SC.5 strategic/civil transport reports; Short Story journal calendar Christmas 1981; Belfast C Mk.1 certificate of airworthiness standard, instruction manual Short Scion; data sheets for Singapore, Scion, Empire, Short-Mayo composite aircrafts; Seamew technical information; drawings for Sunderland; proposed radio installation by Marconi for Tasman Solent; request forms carried out by research and design department; Seland BWIA loading slide rule; promotional booklets for 333/200/360/Skyvan; scrap note receipt book from inspection department; journal articles; correspondence with UFTM on gifting of airplane to museum and miscellaneous including, airline timetables, airplane photos, gyro gliders, general books/brochures on aviation and airplanes.
Includes donation from David Garret of two chassis receipt books and one details of car numbers/chassis/engine/ key/customers/delivery date for Shorland armoured cars.
This archive contains material for plans and the construction of the E.R. 143, V.T.O.L. aircraft, which was constructed at Short Brothers and Harland Ltd.’s Belfast factory. This was the first aircraft built in the United Kingdom to take off and land vertically without a runway. Contents: a final technical report of the aircraft model S.C.1, including information on the tests, a glossary of terms, information on Pitch and Roll Channels, diagrams of pitch rate step responses, Yaw Channel schematic diagrams (electric diagrams), different graphs, reports on functions, a full model of the aircraft, parachute release unit published notes, diagrams of the parachute release, and diagrams on various engines (1950s).