Shackleton and Murray
From Graces Guide
of 175 Piccadilly, London, aircraft dealers and designers
Business formed by W. S. Shackleton and Lee Murray in Australia as aircraft consultants.
1931 Set up office in London.
1932 Designed a small two-seater aircraft with a pusher propeller, powered by a 60 h.p. Hirth engine called the Shackleton-Lee Murray S.M.1. The S.M.1 first flew early in 1933.
At about this time Lee Murray joined the de Havilland organization
1934 The first big orders for aircraft came in from New Guinea. Four Ford Trimotors, together with large stocks of engines and spares, were shipped out from the United Kingdom.
Subsequently W. S. Shackleton Ltd
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Sources of Information
- Flight Archive 21 Sept 1956