Martinsyde
Sign in to saveMartinsyde was a British aircraft and motorcycle manufacturer between 1908 and 1922, when it was forced into liquidation by a factory fire.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Martinsyde
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.fate
- Liquidated after a factory fire
- Company.foundation
- 1908
- Company.founder
- H.P. Martin and George Handasyde
- Company.defunct
- 1922
- Company.location_city
- Woking and Brooklands
- Company.location_country
- England
- Company.key_people
- H.P. Martin and George Handasyde
- Company.industry
- Motorcycle, Aviation
- Company.products
- Motorcycles, Aircraft
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Martinsyde was a British aircraft and motorcycle manufacturer between 1908 and 1922, when it was forced into liquidation by a factory fire.
==History== The company was first formed in 1908 as a partnership between H.P. Martin and George Handasyde and is known as Martin & Handasyde. Their No.1 monoplane was built in 1908–1909 and succeeded in lifting off the ground before being wrecked in a gale. They went on to build a succession of largely monoplane designs although it was a biplane, the S.1 of 1914, that turned Martin-Handasyde into a successful aircraft manufacturer.