Stuart Davies (engineer)
Stuart Duncan Davies CBE FREng FRAeS (5 December 1906 – 22 January 1995) was a British aerospace engineer who was in charge of the design of the Avro Vulcan. He was also responsible for converting the unsuccessful two-engined Avro Manchester into the four-engined Avro Lancaster. Early life He was the son of William Davies and Alice Duncan. He attended Westminster City grammar school in central London from 1918 to 1923. Career Vauxhall His career began at Vauxhall Motors where he worked for two years from the age of 16. Vickers He worked at Vickers as a junior technical assistant from 1925 and gained an external BSc degree in Engineering at Northampton Polytechnic (now City University London) awarded by the University of London. At Vickers he worked in the wind tunnel at Brooklands, and on the Virginia biplane bomber, converting it from a wooden to metal structure. Hawker In 1931 he moved to Hawker Aircraft at Kingston upon Thames. He worked in the stress office, in a t ...
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