Talk:Thomas Sopwith

Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Is he really a KBE as the assigned category indicates? Or rather just Commander of the OBE and a different knight (Knight Bachelor?) as in the text? --AchimP 12:52, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * You're correct. He was awarded a CBE in 1918 and then he became a Knight Bachelor in 1953. I've fixed the categories. -- JD554 10:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Sopwoith Tabloid
In the Daily Telegraph's obit of Henry Allingham, it mentioned he was a mechanc on a WWI seaplane called the Tabloid. Any idea what it was?


 * Sorry I found it Sopwith Tabloid

Paul, in Saudi (talk) 18:35, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

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Bankrupted by post war taxation or voluntary rearrangement of business affiars to  avoid  excess profits tax ?
The text seems to suggest he was bankrupted by an  excess profits tax. When it seems it was the other way round, there was an uproar after the war about  the huge profits made  during the war in many industries, aircraft manufacture amoung them. Sopwith wanted to avoid this new taxation measure so arranged his affairs legally and  put the business into  voluntry liquidation. http://www.kingstonaviation.org/js/plugins/filemanager/files/Brief_History_Banner__10B_Layout_1.pdf

Of course he wanted to continue as a manufacturer as he was successful so bought the shares of the deceased Harry Hawkers  H G Hawker Engineering Co, which was based in Canley Park Rd Kingston. This  is the version given in  " Hurricane- Victor of the Battle of Britain" by Leo McKinstry  pages 22-24  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.61.156.216 (talk) 23:52, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

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