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A History of the County of York East Riding
… the present volume was in preparation. They are Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., the British Transport Docks Board, R. P. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… least three people made bicycles and in quite recent times aircraft construction has been introduced. Fourthly, the … to be called in by some of the largest firms in the aircraft trade whenever anything out of the ordinary had to … Pewsey (see above, p. 196) in 1922. The oldest firm in the aircraft trade in Wiltshire was the Wessex Aircraft …
Ewelme Hundred: An Overview
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… whose former airfield accommodated the Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. from 1946, while gravel extraction continued in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for a new hangar to accommodate up to three Boeing 747 aircraft. 49 The proposal was opposed by Fen Ditton and … the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, airline companies, and aircraft manufacturers. Permission was granted after a Public …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… halted for a fortnight. 17 In the later 1920s the Gloster Aircraft Co. gave a major boost to employment by transferring … factory on the airfield. The company, which made military aircraft, had financial problems because of reduced orders in … recovered and enlarged its factory after 1934 when Hawker Aircraft Ltd. secured control of it. G.A.C. continued to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… given the status of a district. Apart from the addition of aircraft production in the 1920s, Gloucester's industrial …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1915 and even more by the establishment of an aircraft factory there in the later 1920s, 267 included in … Barnwood Ho. Trust, rep. 192735. D. N. James, Gloster Aircraft since 1917 (1971), 5, 18. Glos. R.O., DA 27/114/1, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Sir Frederick) Handley Page (d. 1962) at Limes House. The aircraft designer Captain Geoffrey (later Sir Geoffrey) de …
A History of the County of Oxford
… occupied by an electronic engineering firm specializing in aircraft antennae, and in the late 1990s, after some years …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in memory of R. J. Mitchell, the designer of the Spitfire aircraft, who was born at Butts Lane, Kidsgrove, in 1895. 350 …