Avro Arrow Collection sells for $36,800. - 9 December 2007

The Avro Arrow collection of historical and
related documents has sold for $36,800. including the 15% buyer’s
commission. The buyer, a Canadian, who has followed the history of the
Avro Arrow, has issued a statement as follows:

“This is a collection that belongs in Canada. All items will remain in
Canada.”



Globe and Mail, December 3, 2007

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EMPIRE AUCTIONS presents an extensive collection of more than 100
pieces of A.V. Roe company documents, secret documents, letter drafts,
employee notices, memorabilia, photos relating to the Avro Arrow
project and its cancellation, and other related aviation historical
material, from the desks of Sir Roy Dobson, Crawford Gordon, Fred Smye
and J.Plant,  termination telegrams
from the House of Commons and the Department of Defence Production to
A.V. Roe and Orenda Engines, numbered secret booklets produced by A.V.
Roe outlining Arrow specs and capabilities, and a numbered secret
booklet outlining defence requirements for North America. Photographs
of the Arrow and CF-100, alongside test pilots, engineers and
management. These materials came from the Malton plant of A.V. Roe,
surviving the total destruction of Arrow related material ordered by
the government of Prime Minister Diefenbaker in 1959.

This historical collection documents one of the greatest achievments
and subsequent tragedies in Canadian political, industrial, aviation
and social history. The material also offers testimony to the group of
brilliant, dedicated and proud Canadians that were the force behind the
Avro Arrow.

This entire assemblage is from the possessions of a former employee at
A.V.Roe, who began his tenure at the Malton plant May 25, 1953, who was
one of the fortunate few that stayed on after “Black Friday”. Materials
included document this gentleman’s lifelong involvement with aviation
from his time at the R.A.F. as an apprentice aircraft engineer, to
Hawker Siddeley in England, to the 440 Squadron in Bagotville Quebec,
and to A.V.Roe in Malton to work on the Arrow project. He is a
published author of aviation history, acknowledged by several authors
of important books on the Arrow, the CF-100, the Jetliner and more, for
help provided by him on these projects.

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