Farman F 220 – 224?

Avro 555 ‘Bison’?

Both rather ugly.

I do not usually have any interest in helicopters, but this one looks as though it may come from the same stable as the Bell 30.

Boulton & Paul was a general manufacturing company started in 1797 in Norwich. They manufactured machine tools and stationary engines. They also manufactured pre-fabricated wooden buildings. They supplied the huts for Scott’s Antarctic Expedition.

The aviation division was sold off in 1934 to become Boulton Paul Aircraft Limited and moved to Woverhampton.

There is an interesting web page here:
http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/Transport/planes/boultonPaul.htm

Junkers did indeed merge into the MBB (Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm) Consortium. MBB became part of EADS to become EADS Germany.

MBB has/had the following subsidiaries:
MBB Umweltsysteme GmbH – manufacturing environmental systems.
MBB Liftsystems AG – manufacturing lorry and van lifting systems.
MBB Gelma GmbH – timekeeping and machine control units (now Dorma KG).
MBB Sondertechnik GmbH – lifting systems for military applications and rotors for wind turbines (now FHS Förder– und Hebesysteme GmbH).

Junkers is also a brand name of the Bosch Group manufacturing boilers.

They should have found alternative use for them (the engines), rather then destroying them.

Easy to say in hindsight. After what the world had just been through saving these engines, etc. for posterity was probably the last thing on the authorities minds.

First time posting on this forum, so this information may already be available.

MAN AG and a number of German banks purchased the ompany Otto-Fluzeugwerke and formed a new company – Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG (Bavarian Flying Machine Works LTD). By the end of WWI Bayerische Flugzeugwerke was one of, if not the, biggest aircraft manufacturer in Germany and had over 3000 employees.

The end of WWI hit Bayerische Flugzeugwerke hard as the military demand for aircraft o longer existed in Germany. Due to the woodworking skills and machinery used in manufacturing WWI type aircraft the company started manufacturing furniture and kitchen units. From 1921 they also manufactured motorcycles under the names of Flink and Helios

In 1921/2 BFW was bought by the German government.

Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW) was reformed in 1926 in Augsberg, Bavaria when the company Udet-Flugzeugbau GmbH was changed into a joint stock company. It is interesting to note that BMW AG had a stake in the company in the early years.

Willy Messerchmitt joined the company in 1927 as chief designer and engineer.

In 1935, based on the performance of the record winning Bf 108 Taifun (Typhoon) sports plane the company was invited to submit a design for the Luftwaffe’s fighter contest. The result, which won, was the Bf 109.

In July 1938 Bayerische Flugzeugwerke was reconstituted as Messerschmitt AG. This renaming of the company resulted in its RLM (Reichsluftfahrtministerium / Reich Aviation Ministry) designation being changed from Bf to Me-

Existing types of BFW/Messerschmitt aircraft, such as the 108 and 109, were designated Bf. All later types were designated Me.

The 109 should really be the Bf 109 and not Me 109. However, does it really matter? Whichever term is used just about everyone knows what you are talking about.