SCOTTISH AVIATION Co., Caledonia and Dart monoplanes. (185 Hope St., Glasgow)

   This company published a prospectus on 14 December 1911 stating, among other things, the acquisition of Barrhead Aerodrome and an agreement to build Avro-type aircraft. A. V. Roe was himself on the list of directors. The managing director, Frederick Norman, reported in The Aero on 9 October 1911, that an Avro-type aircraft was nearing completion and that a Scottish-built Farman type pusher biplane, already flying, was to be re-engined with a 50hp Alvaston, built at Glasgow, to make it eligible to compete for the ?1,000 prize on offer for a flight from Edinburgh to Glasgow by an all-Scottish machine.
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   A Bleriot with a modified undercarriage and skids, also fitted with a 35hp JAP engine, appeared for the first time on 3 February 1912, and became known as the SAC Dart. The two monoplanes and the Avro and Farman type biplanes were destroyed in a fire at Barrhead on 13 April 1912. This set back the prospects for growth of Scottish Aviation and no further reports of flying at Barrhead or of the company followed this disaster.