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Deeds and Kettering had previously worked together in several ventures. Deeds' DELCO produced automobile self-starters developed by Kettering. The two used DELCO's profits to form the accessed June 17, 2007. In 1919 Dayton-Wright built a limousine version of the DH-4, a single-seat "Messenger", and a three-seater. In 1920 , with solid all-wood wing, totaly enclosed cockpit and retractable landing gear linked to rod-operated leading and trailing-edge camber-changing flaps"The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft" Edited by David Mondey, revised and updated by Michael Taylor (Greenwhich Editions 10 Blenheim Cort, Brewery RD. London N7 9NT ISBN 0862882680), 2000, 560pp.. In 1923 the Dayton-Wright Company had just started producing side-by-side TW-3 aircraft, powered with World War I surplus Wright E engines (American built 180 hp Hispano-Suiza) when it was closed down by the parent company General Motors , which had purchased it in 1919. Its design rights, chief designer (Colonel Virginius Clark), and the TW-3 contract, were acquired by the newly-formed Consolidated Aircraft Corporation of Buffalo, New York in 1923. Subequent TW-3 aircraft were delivered as Consolidated TW-3 s"United States Military Aircraft Since 1909" by F. G. Swanborough & Peter M. Bowers (Putnam New York, ISBN 085177816X) 1964, 596 pp.. REFERENCES |
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