The Gloster Aircraft Company was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1917 to 1963.
A Bristol F.2B Fighter of No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps flown by Ross Smith in Palestine, February 1918.
The Gloster Mars, a derivative of the Nieuport Nighthawk
Hawker Typhoon during wartime, with black and white identification stripes under the wings
Frank Whittle's memorial showing a full-scale model of the Gloster E28/39
When Herbert Henry Martyn (1842–1937) left his employer in 1874 and set up in business with a stonemason colleague, he could little have imagined that during his lifetime it would grow to employ more than a thousand people. Indeed, the reason he decided to leave was that he resented the injustice of his employer in ascribing some of his work to others. He grew up in poverty, but by that time, he was a skilled craftsman specialising in wood and stone carving with a rich experience of working in churches and carving memorials and gravestones. In 1888 the company was established as an association of art craftsmen. Together with his business partner Alfred Jeffrey Ems he worked on several churches.
In 1900 he established a limited company. At this time, at the age of 30, his son Alfred Willie Martyn was made managing director. A. W.'s goal was to provide a complete service for architects. By then it had diversified into decorative plaster work, joinery, cabinet making, wrought iron work and casting in bronze and gun metal.
Gloster Meteor Centenary of Military Aviation 2014
SS Queen Mary. Long Beach California. Private dining room door. 1934
RMS Empress of Asia. Architect: G.A. Crawley. Dining saloon, plaster and iron work.