Hunting plc

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Hunting plc is a British-based manufacturer and supplier of products and services to the oil and gas industry, aerospace, medical and power generation sectors. Some 27% of the business is owned by the Hunting family. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The company was founded in 1874 by Charles Hunting, a veterinary surgeon, as a shipping business. The business, originally known as Hunting & Pattison, was managed by the founder's son, Charles Samuel Hunting, and comprised two sailing ships, the Genii and the Sylvia. In the 1890s the Hunting and Pattison partnership was dissolved, and a new partnership called Hunting & Son was formed in 1892. The company invested in oil tankers and became a tanker broker. The company became a limited company, Hunting & Son Ltd, in 1926, with Percy and Lindsay Hunting as Governing Directors. In 1936 it diversified into aircraft maintenance and manufacturing as well as air transport, establishing Hunting Aircraft in 1944 by the purchase of Percival Aircraft: this business was absorbed into the British Aircraft Corporation in 1960. The company started it move into the oil industry in 1938 with the founding of the Sylva Oil Company and the Brazos Young Corporation, in a long-running partnership with the McAlester Fuel Company.