Saro’s Chief Designer in the era of flying boats and designer of the Saunders-Roe Princess talks about the projects that dominated his career.

Knowler started with Vickers and worked on the Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus during World War I. After spells with A. M. Low and English Electric, he moved to S. E. Saunders and worked on flying boats. In this podcast he briefly describes working on the Saunders A.3 Valkyrie and the Saunders-Roe A7 Severn, A.17 Cutty Sark, A.27 London, S.36 Lerwick, S.R.A/1 and the S.R.45 Princess, together with Saro’s work on the Short S.25 Sunderland and Short/Saro S.35 Shetland. Knowler also recounts his experiences of working with Sir A. V. Roe and Sir Frank Whittle.

These reminiscences were recorded in 1971, the podcast was edited by Mike Stanberry FRAeS and it was digitised thanks to a grant from the Royal Aeronautical Society Foundation.