The London Aircraft Production Group

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  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    The subject of that observation is London Aircraft Production Group (LAP) which was led and coordinated by the London Passenger Transport Board (LT) between 1940 and 1945 to produce Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber aircraft. The other members of the Group were: Chrysler Motors Ltd., Duple, Express Motor and Body Works and Park Royal Coachworks
    By Brian A L Jones

    https://www.rchs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/342-London-Aircraft-Production-Group.pdf
     
  2. Sheldrake

    Sheldrake All over the place....

    It is serendipity but as a side effect of my Covid job I am researching the story of the Northern Heights Line Extension. I was fascinated by the idea that Halfax Bombers had London Transport bus seats...

    Aldenham became the factory where London Transport buses were refurbished in the post war years. It was the setting for Cliff Richards' Summer Holiday -m they were all supposed employees.
     
  3. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

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  4. papiermache

    papiermache Well-Known Member

    Interesting to see the story of how things were made in and around London. Going through photographs taken at Kew in 2008 I came across the attached Air Ministry Memorandum. I think the Department of Town & Country Planning were rather peeved ( 1940's expression ) about RAF officers shaping the new world in the UK but given their colleagues were risking everything on a nightly basis.....

    HM Treasury files are often good series at Kew to find documents involving many HM Government Ministries. The attached sets out the Heathrow as future London Airport and costs ) file at Kew: T161/1291.) Good to hide it here lest the charge of talking politics arises but it is just plain history. The development of Stansted was very much quieter: wartime requistioning procedure for land purchase and only "Circular 100 procedure" or involvement of local authorities in mid-1950's. The USA built Stansted and lengthened the runway in the 1950's. Land purchase at Stansted Mountfichet was about 760 acres at an average of £45 an acre.

    A video of Heath Row being constructed is here:

     

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  5. Sheldrake

    Sheldrake All over the place....

    My covid job is on the buses. My route 221 includes the section from Mill Hill East to Edgware via Mill Hill Broadway - next to the Northern Heights Hale station. This bus service used to be the 240A and accepted underground tickets to Edgware for any bus stop between Mill Hill East and Edgware.

    In other words it was a rail replacement bus service for a railway line that was never built...
     
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