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Pimms Started conversation Sep 26, 2006
Nice entry 
I wondered at the spelling and a bit of research turned up that the company contracted to produce the Meteor was orginally called the "Gloucestershire Aircraft Company" (established 1915), but renamed the "Gloster Aircraft Company" in 1926 "...as overseas buyers found the “Gloucestershire” rather too difficult to pronounce."
reference:
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/brockworthpc/page6.html
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