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A History of the County of Middlesex
… proximity to Hendon Aerodrome made it a centre of aircraft and munitions production. Edgware Road provided good … at the back of Thrupp & Maberly's factory in 1915. 36 The Aircraft Manufacturing Co. (Airco), which had been founded in … was the de Havilland works in Stag Lane. The de Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd. was founded in 1920 by a group from Airco …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… county, was housed in a building once belonging to the Aircraft Manufacturing Co. and adapted to take 380 pupils …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 59 Heavy traffic along Stag Lane in connexion with the aircraft industry led to an improvement in the road there in … and 16 more by 1919. 43 The 1914-18 war brought the aircraft industry to northeast Kingsbury and in 1916 the … Baines to design Roe Green Village for employees of the Aircraft Manufacturing Co. Ltd. He was to build 250 houses on …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… School of Shooting in 1907. 88 The growth of the aircraft industry led to the opening of the London and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… one man and damaging several buildings. 14 A number of aircraft crashed in the Leek area during the war, several of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Moor farm existed by 1841. 57 A transit camp for anti-aircraft battalions from the United States of America was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to Aldenham (Herts.). During the Second World War an aircraft factory occupied the site, where in 1956, after … which had been occupied on its completion in 1964 by Aircraft-Marine Products (G.B.), later AMP of Great Britain. … terminals to electric wire, serving the marine and aircraft industries and later a wide range of massproduced …
A History of the County of Sussex
… sand and the constant winds along the shore, founded an aircraft works which after the removal of much of the sand in … Thompson Flight Co. During the First World War it supplied aircraft to the navy, the workforce growing from ten at the … Westhampnett rural district council in 1916. 87 About 250 aircraft in all were built, some by sub-contractors, but with …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… World War it was in intensive use for the storage of aircraft and for training. It was transferred to the Ministry …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… brewery in Brook Street and during the war it made anti-aircraft devices and firefighting equipment there and …