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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… both the Air Ministry and the Admiralty. In 1942 a large aircraft factory was built underground, while married …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from flying clubs to use the meadow, but the first aircraft to come to Oxford landed there in 1911 and there was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… edn.). Ashworth, Action Stations, 436; Boscombe Bulletin (Aircraft and Armament Evaluation Establishment, ix), passim …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Packing Co. 432 Dowty's used the store for the repair of aircraft components, and in 1945 the Air Ministry enlarged …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… squadrons. 59 Following the phasing out of Canberra aircraft, on whose maintenance c. 250 local people had been …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… hamlet. The factory, making watches and instruments for aircraft, expanded during the war and afterwards, and in 1964 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… it something of a middle-class residential character. The aircraft hangars in Northwood Road, Clayton, were built …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and flat ground near the brook was used in 1940 as an aircraft training ground. 50 In 1842 the remains of a Roman …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was part of Maintenance Command and chiefly used for aircraft storage; several large hangars were built. In the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… from 1931 and remained open until 1947. 332 The Wessex Aircraft Engineering Company Ltd., founded in 1933, had … on the airfield. It made signalling equipment for aircraft and, during the Second World War, for ships. After …