• ADC Aircraft Ltd

In 1920 the British government sold the UK’s postwar stock of surplus aircraft (10,000+), aero-engines (35,000+) and other equipment to Imperial & Foreign Corporation Ltd, for £1 million plus a 50% share of any profits made. Imperial & Foreign Corporation Ltd formed the Aircraft Disposal Co Ltd to sell the surplus equipment and manage its storage in the large depots nationwide, including three former national aircraft factories. Frederick Handley Page was one of Aircraft Disposal Co Ltd’s founders and Handley Page Ltd were subsequently appointed as the company’s sole managing and selling agent. By 1925 2,000 airframes and 3,000 engines, had been sold generating profits of over £2.5 million. The company changed name in 1925 to ADC Aircraft Ltd. The company produced a small range of aircraft engines under the direction of Frank Halford who was engaged to modernise the stock of wartime engines for resale, the Cirrus engine – designed for the de Havilland Moth – continued to be manufactured by Cirrus Aero Engines Ltd and their successors. The company also developed a couple of aircraft. It was wound up in 1930.