Short and Harland Ltd., Airport Road, Belfast

Short and Harland Ltd. on Airport Road, Belfast contributed significantly to the war effort during the Second World War. Workers manufactured the Short Sunderland Flying Boat and Short Stirling Bomber for the Royal Air Force.

By 1941, the firm employed around 20,000 workers who had been contributing to the United Kingdom’s war effort since 1936. Then they began making 189 Handley Page Hereford Bombers for the R.A.F.