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from the Artist: Unisex T-Shirt. The de Havilland Aircraft Company was a British aviation manufacturer founded in 1920. Initially, de Havilland concentrated on single and two-seat biplanes. These included the Gipsy and Tiger Moths. These aircraft set many aviation records, many piloted by de Havilland himself. One of de Havilland’s trademarks was that the name of the aircraft type was painted on using a particularly elegant Roman typeface, all in capital letters. When there was a strike at the plant, the artisans who painted the name on the planes used the same typeface to make the workers’ protest signs. The high-performance designs and wooden construction methods culminated in perhaps the most famous de Havilland aircraftthe Mosquito, constructed primarily of wood because of the shortage of aluminium during the Second World War. The company followed this with the even higher-performing Hornet, which was one of the pioneers of the use of metal-wood and metal-metal bonding techniques. After
