Early Career
Floyd started in January 1930 as an apprentice with A.V. Roe and Company in the UK (a position which was gained through connections with Roy Dobson) - Jim moved up the chain finally ending as Senior Vice President and Director of Engineering at A.V. Roe Canada.
During his early career, Floyd was employed as a design engineer on the Anson, Manchester, Lancaster, York, Lincoln and Tudor projects at A. V. Roe. He also spent time at Hawker, another aircraft company in the Hawker Siddeley group. This meant that he worked under two well-known British aircraft designers: Roy Chadwick and Sydney Camm. He was later appointed Chief Project Engineer of a special projects group at the Avro office in Yorkshire, where he worked on the application of jet engine technology to transport aircraft.
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