Fairey's postwar preview places the Swordfish within a longer company lineage rather than as an isolated success. The sequence runs back through the TSR and Seal to an earlier aircraft tentatively identified as the Gordon. The many one-off designs show how much experimentation stood between the company's First World War beginnings and its best-known naval aircraft. The passage leads into the postwar development covered in the next part.
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The Seal and TSR trace a path toward the Swordfish
A brief lineage places the Swordfish after the TSR and Seal, with the earlier type tentatively identified as the Gordon, amid Fairey's many one-off aircraft.