Saunders-Roe Limited was a British aero- and marine-engineering company based at Columbine Works East Cowes

East Cowes

East Cowes is a town and civil parish to the north of the Isle of Wight, on the east bank of the River Medina next to its neighbour on the west bank, Cowes....

, Isle of Wight.
The name was adopted in 1929 after Alliot Verdon Roe (see Avro

Avro

Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer, with numerous landmark designs such as the Avro 504 trainer in the First World War, the Avro Lancaster, one of the pre-eminent bombers of the Second World War, and the delta wing Avro Vulcan, a stalwart of the Cold War.-Early history:One of the world's...

) and John Lord took a controlling interest in the boat-builders S.E. Saunders. Prior to this (excepting for the Sopwith/Saunders Bat Boat

Sopwith Bat Boat

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) the products were Saunders, the A4 Medina

Saunders Medina

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 for example dating from 1926. Sam Saunders the founder developed the Consuta

Consuta

Consuta was a revolutionary form of construction of watertight hulls for boats and marine aircraft, comprising four veneers of mahogany planking interleaved with waterproofed calico and stitched together with copper wire....

 material used in marine and aviation craft.