Latimer-Needham to design, manufacture and repair gliders from its workshop at Barton-Le-Clay Airfield in Bedfordshire.
Records comment that G221 was purchased by a trainee pilot who was still in his early stages of training with a primary glider.
This Dunstable Kestrel passed to the Norfolk & Norwich Aero Club and crashed in 1938, however W.L.
Whilst no remains exist of the British built aircraft all three Australian-built ones are in museums.
Manuel spent his early life working at RAF Hawkinge[2] Kent with 25 Fighter Squadron, He was a key member in the establishment of the Channel Gliding Club (1930[3]), and built an estimated 14 aircraft over his 84-year life.