Miles Aircraft
Miles Gemini of the 1940s | |
| Industry | Aviation |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1930s (as Phillips & Powis Aircraft) |
| Defunct | 1947 |
| Fate | aviation interests taken on by Handley Page |
| Successor | F.G.Miles Ltd / Handley Page Reading Ltd / Western Manufacturing Ltd |
| Headquarters | Woodley, Berkshire, UK |
Key people | Fred, Blossom & George Miles Test pilots included Thomas Rose and Ken Waller. |
| Products | Aircraft, photocopiers, book binding equipment, fasteners (self locking nuts), actuators |
Miles was the name used for aircraft and associated businesses of British engineer Frederick George Miles, who, with his wife – aviator and draughtswoman Maxine "Blossom" Miles (née Forbes-Robertson) – and his brother George Herbert Miles, designed numerous light civil and military aircraft and a range of curious prototypes, primarily between 1943 and 1947.