Clayton & Shuttleworth

Clayton & Shuttleworth was an engineering company located at Stamp End Works, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.

[2] By 1908, they had improved their designs by including a mechanical lubrication system, replacing the need for the driver to stop the machine to oil the moving parts at regular intervals.

The first was in Vienna (Austria), and other branches followed in Pest (Hungary), Prague (now the Czech Republic), Kraków (now Poland) and Lemberg (now Ukraine).

The administrative structure changed in 1901, when the firm became a limited company, with Alfred Shuttleworth (1843–1925), son of the founder, becoming the chairman.

A tractor with an oil engine, magneto ignition and mechanical lubrication was exhibited at the Royal Show at Norwich in that year.

[6] By 1913, they had produced a valveless semi-diesel engine, where the movement of the piston controlled the admission of air to the cylinders and the discharging of exhaust gases.

[12] In March 1917 the company received a contract to build the Sopwith Camel, and this remained in production until 1919, by which time more than 500 aircraft had been constructed.

[14] One of the most notable aircraft built by Clayton & Shuttleworth was Sopwith Camel B7270, flown by Canadian pilot Roy Brown, and officially credited with shooting down the Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen.

An officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR), he was killed in a night flying accident in World War II.

After the war the Soviet Red Army occupied Hungary, and the newly formed Communist government started nationalising the industry.