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The Sopwith Camel is probably the best known and most successful British aeroplane of World War One. The Sopwith Aviation Company was set up in 1912 by a young entrepreneur called Tommy Sopwith. Many of the Sopwith models were designed in an old skating rink on Canbury Park Road, in Kingston-Upon-Thames. There was never an airfield in Kingston so testing took place at nearby Brooklands. The Sopwith factory produced a dazzling array of prototype models to support the war effort but in 1920 the company went into voluntary liquidation. Sopwith started again with a new company, HG Hawker Engineering, which would go on to produce the Hawker Hurricane. Location: Canbury Park Road, Kingston-Upon-Thames, London KT2 Image: Sopwith Camel