Stratford, Alan Howard, brother of Martin Gould Stratford (qv); b. 19 Mar. 1914; adm. Sept. 1926 (G); left July 1930; Univ. of London, BSc 1935; aircraft design Airsreed Ltd 1935-7, Rolls Royce Ltd 1937-9; RAFVR 1939-5 (Flt Lieut.), p.o.w. Brest 1941; engine flight testing Napiers Ltd 1945-6; BEA 1946-53; Hawker-Siddeley Aviation 1953-64; FRAeS 1962, CEng 1965; chairman and man. dir. Alan Stratford Associates Ltd (air transport consultancy) 1964-; Rees Jeffreys Fellow Univ. of Southampton 1976; author of Air Transport Economics in the Supersonic Era 1967, 2nd ed. 1973; m. Apr. 1946 Ellen Joan, d. of George Herbert Nunn of Weston, Bath; d. Oct. 2005.
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