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A History of the County of Warwick
… the Standard works at Whoberley, the Armstrong Siddeley aircraft works at Whitley, the telephone works at Stoke … destroying both the Royal Air Force and the British aircraft industry particularly those essential sections of it … population of Coventry but to put out of action the city's aircraft and other industries. German bomber crews were not …
A History of the County of Warwick
… and 1932 and the growth of the bicycle, motor vehicle, and aircraft industries. 34 All the hospitals expanded during … wars was the great expansion of the motor, cycle, and aircraft industries during these years. Apart from swelling …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1954 a number of items from R. G. J. Nash's collection of aircraft, motor cars, and bicycles at Brooklands (Surrey) …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… joined by new engineering firms and, from the 1920s, by aircraft production, continued to provide employment on a …
A History of the County of Leicester
… much of the output of the factories was devoted to making aircraft parts, such as braided rubber shock-absorbers and …
Survey of London
… later used by an automobile company and subsequently as an aircraft factory, an amusement park, a garage and ultimately …
Survey of London
… it was later widely applied, perhaps most notably in early aircraft hangars, such as those surviving at Hendon and …
A History of the County of York
… requisitioned in 1939 and its chief wartime use was as an aircraft repair depot. 86 Several industrial undertakings …
A History of the County of Chester
… for the local workforce, by 1938 there were two large aircraft factories near Chester: de Havilland at Broughton … alleviated when many of its residents were taken on by the aircraft factories. 3 Women were also needed, and in 1942 the …
A History of the County of Chester
… 160 prefabricated houses from components produced at the aircraft factory at Broughton. With higher levels of …