Originally Posted by
m.Berger
(barring, possibly the Pup.)
The Pup was a financial disaster. It's all in (of all places) Tony Benn's memoirs. When he was Industry Minister he was one of the most pro-aviation ministers we've ever had (well he was serving wartime pilot) and he went down to see Beagle with a view to granting a request for a £2m government grant to invest in volume tooling for the Pup and Basset. While there he flew both and liked them, But his finance team had gone over the books, and reported that the Pups were being sold (from memory) for about £3k each, but they were costing over £20k each to build due to barely having a single plane curve in any metal part. And what was worse was that Beagle's senior management didn't seem to be aware of this...
PDR