Queen's awards for export and technological achievement, 1976

The Aviation Division of Smiths Industries at Cheltenham has won a Queen's Award for Export Achievement. Exports and indirect exports from the Cheltenham factory have increased over a three year period by almost £5 million to £11 million each year, representing some 70 per cent of production. Exports are made regularly to almost every country having commercial and military aircraft produced in the western world; while the bulk of export sales are to those countries with an aircraft manufacturing industry.