Frank Searle (businessman)
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Frank Searle CBE, DSO, MIME was a British transport entrepreneur, a locomotive engineer who moved from steam to omnibuses, the motor industry and airlines.
Frank Searle's improved B-type Omnibus entered service 18 October 1910
B-type Omnibus "Ole Bill" troop transport
Daimler-Foster 105 hp tractor towing artillery on a trailer built by Fosters, Flanders 1917. Photo by Ernest Brooks.
Daimler Airway De Havilland DH.34
Daimler Airway
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Daimler Airway was an airline subsidiary of the Birmingham Small Arms Company 's Daimler Company. It was created as Daimler Air Hire and became Daimler Airway after combination with the assets of the
Frank Searle (businessman)
…on 17 December 1920. In January 1921 debt-swamped AT&T was liquidated and its assets, bought by Daimler Hire, were put with Daimler Air Hire to make Daimler Airway. Searle also became the managing director of Daimler Airway. Also in that year, Searle read a paper title "The Requirements and Difficulties of Air…
Instone de Havilland DH.18