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A History of the County of Gloucester
… later, until c. 1965, as a testingground by the Gloucester Aircraft Co. 20 North of the airfield is an outlying camp of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… OD and visible on air photographs (CUAP, ABG29) are anti-aircraft sites and are still visible as earthworks on …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… by the Army Motor Lorry Co. At first they tested their aircraft in an adjoining field, but soon after moved the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Mill Hill in 1926 and built new head offices in 1956. 32 Aircraft were first made in Hendon by Everett, Edgcumbe and … and the adjoining factory in 1922, when the manufacture of aircraft was resumed. 34 In 1912 Handley Page Ltd. established an aircraft factory at Cricklewood after moving from Barking …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… for training by the Royal Naval Air Service and aircraft production was increased, but with the coming of … the two World Wars. During the Second World War fighter aircraft were stationed at Hendon until 1940, after which the … covered with houses or converted to playing fields. 69 Aircraft production during the First World War hastened the …
Henley: Urban Economic History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… 14 In 2009 it specialized in the design and production of aircraft-related reservation systems. 15 Perpetual Unit Trust …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… opening of the Heston Air Park in 1929 had attracted nine aircraft manufacturers and other firms connected with flying … (Concrete, Dewhurst and Partner, Fluidrive, and Heston Aircraft) employed over 500 each, and about 30 employed over …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… London-Paris service was operated from here and the first aircraft to fly from Europe to Australia took off from here, … and most of it was given over to gravel-working. 93 The aircraft and kindred factories round its perimeter, however, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… gear for machine guns firing through the propellers of aircraft. 83 The premises were taken over in 1920 by the …
A History of the County of Essex
… pilot who, in the Second World War, stayed in his crashing aircraft to avoid the school and was killed in the accident. … school. R. J. Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire fighter aircraft. Educ. in Essex (194552), 31; (196064), 26. Havering …