Like his early colleagues in the aviation industry, Frederick Handley Page was one of the first men to hold a pilot’s licence in England. During the Great War, influenced by the German Zeppelin bombing raids, Handley Page designed a heavy bomber for the Royal Naval Air Service. He went on to design heavy bombers throughout the 1930’s for the Royal Air Force, finally culminating in both the wartime Halifax and the post war ‘V’ Bomber the Victor.

Handley Page also produced aircraft for civil aviation, with the Dart Herald of the 1950’s and the Jet Stream of the 1960’s and beyond.

The company finished trading in the early 1970’s but their name lives on in the field of aviation.