>>1298137>>1298150BAC would later become uninterested in the A310 and they would later go off on their own to manufacture the BAC One-Eleven which was an airliner concept which Hunting Aircraft had conceived. The One-Eleven would compete directly against the new Boeing 737 and the Douglas DC-9. At the same time, Hawker Siddeley also was constructing their own narrow body airliner, the Trident. It would compete against the Boeing 727 as well as the newer Boeing and Douglas jets.
The fact that 2 different British designs were in the market place were, however very problematic. Both undercut each other, and Boeing and Douglas swept the European market. Other European designs by Fokker, Dassault and Dornier never really got very far either thanks to market fragmentation.
BAC really only made money manufacturing wings for the A300 and A310 and Hawker Siddely made their money from selling the Nimrod, Buccaneer, final Vulcans and the Harrier (including the lucrative licence for the US manufacture of the Harrier).
BAC, Hawker Siddeley and Scottish Aviation all merged into British Aerospace, where they then consolidated their products and went more into Airbus collaboration, by which point the A320 was under development, and a single European narrow body was possible.
The last aircraft British Aerospace designed themselves was the BAE 146, which was later modernised as the Avro RJ, resurrecting the Avro name, which itself was merged into Hawker Siddely along with Handley Page. The Avro name was most famous for the Avro Vulcan and the Avro Lancaster.
In 1980, British Aerospace was privatised
In 1999, upon buying out the Marconi Company/General Electric Company (GEC), they renamed to BAE Systems and changed their focus to defence products. As early as 2000, BAE Systems, uninterested in civil aircraft, wanted to sell their 20% ownership in Airbus SAS when it was formed. This was blocked by shareholders many times, but BAE Systems eventually sold their share off in 2006.
