2-631-819 - Historic England/Heritage Images

Aircraft manufacturing, Dick, Kerr & Company, Strand Road, Preston, Lancashire, January 1918. Close-up of the propellers and fuselage of a seaplane (probably N4259) standing on blocks. 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.