Pemberton-Billing
From Graces Guide
1913 Noel Pemberton-Billing set up a company, Pemberton-Billing, to produce sea-going aircraft. It also produced a couple of prototypes using quadruplane designs to shoot down Zeppelins, which became the Supermarine P.B.29 and the Supermarine Nighthawk. The aircraft were fitted with the recoilless Davis gun and the Nighthawk had a separate power plant to power a searchlight.
1916 Upon election as an MP in 1916 Noel Pemberton-Billing sold the company to his factory manager and long time associate Hubert Scott-Paine who renamed the company Supermarine Aviation Works. The company became famous for its successes in the Schneider Trophy for seaplanes, especially the three wins in a row of 1927, 1929 and 1931.
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