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no obvious improvement over existing types also to AD Speci cation N.2(C), did materialise. but Percy Hyde Beadle left shortly afterwards.
and the N.1B was abandoned. Developed from the N.T.4A and with common Nonetheless N82 was completed, undergoing
Serials N18 and N19, meanwhile, were ight surfaces, an improved hull was introduced trials during the summer and autumn of
allotted to the Norman Thompson ‘Cruiser built along John Porte’s principles. Since the 1918. It was intended the N.2C visit Grain
Flying Boat’ ordered in January 1917 to spring of 1917, Norman Thompson had been for assessment but along with N83, (which
Admiralty Department Speci cation N.2(C). licence-manufacturing Porte’s Felixstowe was never completed), N82 was scrapped on
Unfortunately, the programme fell into serious F.2A ying boat hulls, and had absorbed the New Year’s Eve.
delay and was eventually terminated. Three advantages. Porte’s arrangement was much Early in 1919 the Norman Thompson Flight
‘School Biplane’ ying boats, N107-N109, were simpler than the boat-built hulls produced by Company was absorbed by Handley Page.
contracted in January 1918, to be powered Norman Thompson, instead adopting a cross- Like many small rms, the slump in orders
by either 200hp Hispano-Suizas or Arabs, but braced plywood-covered girder structure. The following the Armistice proved its undoing.
were cancelled when the war ended. N.2C was powered by 200hp Arab pushers, The aircraft produced by Thompson’s
The large Norman Thompson N.2C ’boat, and was intended for maritime patrol and anti- company aren’t widely remembered
surface vessel work. today, but they made an important
A contract for two N.2Cs, N82 and contribution to maritime
N83, arrived in November 1917 ying and to Britain’s
war effort.

The tandem two-seat ghter, N.1B N37,
seen at Middleton. Its ailerons were
linked by struts, while the rakish n
of many previous Norman Thompson
designs was dispensed with.

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