Hawker Siddeley

Hawker Siddeley Group Limited

Company type	Public
Industry	Aerospace, Engineering
Predecessor	Hawker Aircraft
Founded	1934; 91 years ago (1934) (as Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Co.)
Founders	J. D. Siddeley (Co-founder) Thomas Sopwith (Co-founder, Chairman & Life President)
Defunct	29 April 1977; 47 years ago (1977-04-29) (aircraft production) 1992; 33 years ago (1992) (whole company)
Fate	Aircraft business merged with British Aircraft Corporation and Scottish Aviation Group divested
Successor	British Aerospace Bristol Siddeley Airbus
Headquarters	Kingston upon Thames, Greater London , United Kingdom
Key people	Ralph Hooper, Barry Laight
Number of employees	4,500
Subsidiaries	Hawker Aircraft Gloster Aircraft Company Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft A. V. Roe and Company A.V. Roe Canada/Hawker Siddeley Canada (from 1945) Folland Aircraft (from 1959) de Havilland Aircraft (from 1960) Blackburn Aircraft (from 1960)

Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production. Hawker Siddeley combined the legacies of several British aircraft manufacturers, emerging through a series of mergers and acquisitions as one of only two such major British companies in the 1960s. In 1977, Hawker Siddeley became a founding component of the nationalised British Aerospace (BAe). Hawker Siddeley also operated in other industrial markets, such as locomotive building (through its ownership of Brush Traction) and diesel engine manufacture (through its ownership of Lister Petter). The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.