After returning from the
First World War Herbert Joseph Larkin, a fighter pilot with the
Royal Flying Corps, and his brother Reg Larkin formed an agency for
Sopwith aircraft. The company was formed in 1919 as the Larkin-Sopwith Aviation Company of Australia Limited, manufacturing aircraft components. The original company went into liquidation and Herbert Larkin then started the Larkin Aircraft Supply Company (known as
Lasco) in 1921. In 1925 the company produced copies of the
Avro 504K. The company also produced under-licence the
de Havilland Gipsy Moth and one
de Havilland DH.50 biplane. It also designed and built a number of aircraft including the
Lasco Lascoter in 1929, the first all-metal aircraft to be built in Australia. The last design was the three-engined
Lascondor. Withdrawal of government subsidy, and economic depression, caused the company to shut in the 1930s. ==Aircraft==