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The pedals, etc would be marked ‘Bell’, as they are in fact, Bell parts. Westland would have produced the frames, skins, etc; 😀

Or would they have been imported from Agusta?
The Putnam book, Westland Aircraft since 1915 doesn’t have a chapter on the Sioux, instead lumping with the Gazelle in the appendix: “Production of other manufacturers’ aircraft.” It says it was made under license from Agusta which were in turn built under license from Bell.

I’ve always wonderered how much of the UK Sioux was built by Westland or whether they just did the assembly with parts from Agusta and Bell. There is a photo of the 47 production line in the book and showing stripped bubble-less cabins. So clearly, it was a bit more intense than an Airfix kit.

A related question has always been how many of the critical components: rotor shaft, tranmissions, rotor head, etc were built by Augusta or whether they were imported from the U.S.