Roy Chadwick, CBE, FRAeS (30 April 1893 – 23 August 1947) was an aircraft designer for Avro. Born at Marsh Hall Farm, Farnworth in Widnes, son of the mechanical engineer Charles Chadwick, he was the Chief Designer for the Avro Company and was responsible for practically all of their aeroplane designs. He is famous in particular for designing the Avro Lancaster bomber, its follow-up Avro Lincoln and preliminary designs of the Avro Vulcan V bomber....
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Roy Chadwick, CBE, FRAeS (30 April 1893 – 23 August 1947) was an aircraft designer for Avro. Born at Marsh Hall Farm, Farnworth in Widnes, son of the mechanical engineer Charles Chadwick, he was the Chief Designer for the Avro Company and was responsible for practically all of their aeroplane designs. He is famous in particular for designing the Avro Lancaster bomber, its follow-up Avro Lincoln and preliminary designs of the Avro Vulcan V bomber. He also converted the Lincoln into the much-used Shackleton.
He went to St Clements Church School in Urmston, then studied at night school from 1907 to 1914 at the Manchester Municipal College of Technology whilst working as a draughtsman at British Westinghouse in Trafford Park.
From September 1911, he began work at Avro at Brownsfield Mill when he was 18. When starting to design entire planes, he was based at Hamble, near Southampton. In 1928, he moved back to the Avro factory in Woodford, Greater Manchester, used today by BAE Systems. In...
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