Aircraft carrier contract

Surrey-based engineering services group,

, has secured a contract to support ongoing work on the

’s new aircraft carriers, the HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales.

The contract involves design research, product development and technical assessment work on the carriers.

Most of the work will be carried out at future aircraft carrier (CVF) project’s Bristol headquarters as well as Rosyth and Scotstoun shipyards, where different components of the carriers are being produced.

Mark Docton, Frazer-Nash’s CVF project manager, said: ‘This announcement underlines the quality of our work for the MoD, and reiterates the important role that we play in the development of the new carriers.

‘When completed, the new carriers will be the most potent the Royal Navy has ever operated.

'Their development, therefore, demands the highest-quality engineering support – something that we are well-placed to provide with our team of technical engineers, systems engineers and naval architects.’

According to Frazer-Nash, around 15 staff will be involved on the project at any one time and work is expected to last until June 2010.