2-631-818 - Historic England/Heritage Images

Aircraft manufacturing, Dick, Kerr & Company, Strand Road, Preston, Lancashire, January 1918. Seaplane N4259 standing on blocks. in the background other planes can be seen under construction. One of a series of photographs taken for Dick, Kerr and Company, a locomotive and tramcar manufacturer. During the First World War the company made aircraft designed by the Seaplane Experimental Station, based at the Royal Naval Air Station in Felixstowe.