EAW003347 ENGLAND (1946). Aircraft factories, RAF Brooklands and the Brooklands Motor Course, Brooklands, 1946

PILLBOX: e72389 (Removed)

PILLBOX: e72390 (Removed)

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SMALL ARMS RANGE: e69994

LAA BATTERY: e46182

LAA BATTERY: e46183

AIRFIELD: S0003918

BOFORS TOWER: e11346

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Areas of several departments in the construction and fabrication of aircraft parts. Fitters department fabricating simple cleats & brackets to assemblies such as Viscount main undercarriage door operating beam and Viscount cargo doors to Cowling doors for Vickers Varsity. Tinsmiths department fabricating jet pipes & engine cowling panels for Vickers Viscount & Vanguards. Full machine shop department facilities & Press and routing shops. Also the main canteen on the upper floor.

Main crossing bridge from East to West for vehicular traffic during 1950's to closure of Brooklands circa 1980.

Bridge in use today that carried all aircraft into the Brooklands Museum.

Site of North end of concrete runway subsequently built circa early 1950, subsequently circa 1962 to have extension loop for the VC10 with the Brooklands memorial in centre. Memorial subsequently to be moved into the Brooklands Museum when Mercedes Benz building built..

Site of South end of concrete runway subsequently built circa early 1950's.

Complex of several hangers subsequently over several years from circa 1950 to late 1970's for various aircraft construction assemblies including Viscount wings, early Viscount fuselages, (most Viscount fuselages were fabricated at Hurn & transported by road on low loaders to Weybridge for the Viscount production line in B1 or short run in W1). Subsequently used for machine shop production of wing panels for the integral wing fuel tank type of fabrication of Vickers Vanguard & VC10 aircraft.

Walton-On-Thames Bridge.

River Thames at Walton-On- Thames.

Weybridge Town Centre.

Steam Locomotive hauling several passenger carriages toward Waterloo London.

Railway Bridge over River Wey.

Steam Locomotive hauling several freight wagons.

Weybridge Railway Station from Waterloo London.

North End site of B1 dual production line for Vickers Viscount & later years for production of Vickers Vanguard Elevator & Rudder assemblies, subsequently the site for assembly of the complete fuselage of all VC10 aircraft.

In later years circa 1954 South end site of B1 dual production line for Vickers Viscount & TSR2 Supersonic Bomber cancelled in 1965 by the Labour government. Also utilized subsequently for production of Concorde Fin and Forward Fuselage.

Brooklands Airfield Fire Station.

Wing Construction shop for Vickers Valiant, Vickers Vanguard & VC10 wings.

Fuselage shop for Vickers Valiant & subsequently Vickers Vanguard during period circa 1952 to 1962

Chemical Processes and Heat treatment department.

Approximate site of dedicated Apprentice school opened in December 1955, to replace previous Apprentice area on the Gallery of the Fitters department attached to W1.

Systems Test House.

Vickers Armstrongs Ltd (Aircraft) design offices.

Main Entrance Gate to Vickers Armstrongs from Brooklands Road.

Area known as "The Sandpits", across the Brooklands Road from main works. During WW2 a maze of shelters during bombing raids by Germany, later to become a complex for storing metal material such as extruded and sheet metal.

Main Erecting Shop production line designated W1, for many Vickers Armstrongs aircraft including some if not all Vickers Wellingtons (maybe elsewhere production took place as well during WW2). Post war production of Vickers Vikings, Valletta's & Varsity aircraft. Late 1940's into 1950's all Vickers Valiant 4 jet "V" bomber production, a few Vickers Viscounts were produced between end of Valiant production and 1st Vickers Vanguard G-AOYW flight on 20th January 1959, all subsequent Vanguard production was carried out in W1. Then from 1961 into 1962 the Vickers VC10 production carried out in W1 where fuselage & wings were married up, then to be transferred across the airfield to the 2 newer facilities of final construction "The Abbey" and "Cathedral".

Administration block for Vickers Armstrongs Ltd. With on the Brooklands Road side the Emblem & Vickers Armstrongs Ltd (Weybridge) name displayed. A white façade building that I believe was a listed façade, but destroyed by fire in dubious circumstances.

The Historic Mansion of Hugh Fortescue Locke King (1848–1926). He was a British entrepreneur who founded and financed the creation of the Brooklands motor racing circuit. Circa 1950's, the Building and Estate became the Brooklands Weybridge Technical College for the surrounding area including apprentices from Vickers Armstrongs at Brooklands. See :- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_F._Locke_King

Position of Track removed to facilitate entry into Weybridge Main Works of Vickers Armstrongs from the Byfleet side of Oyster Lane circa late 40's early 50's known as "Hawkers Gate". Subsequently some or most of the old Hawkers Hangers were demolished & the entrance given the name "Hawkers Gate". Now road angled to facilitate the modern through Road of Barns Wallis Drive & Hawkers Gate now not evident.

Hennibique Bridge, the Brooklands track bridge over The River Wey Circa 1906. Now demolished many years ago as structure became un-safe due to constant vibrations from passing trains over adjacent railway bridge. Myself being an apprentice at Vickers Armstrongs 1955 to 1960, used to climb with others beneath structure during lunch time at nearby Brooklands College and experienced the vibrations when trains passing, felt like an earthquake, that was the days of steam locomotives & diesels.

WWII Bofors LAA emplacement.

WWII Bofors LAA emplacement

WW2 Camouflage Scheme Ground

WW2 Static Water Supply SWS

Hawker hangar camouflaged as a row of houses.

Site of current Mercedes Benz World

High Speed Banking

Site of current Bus Museum

Hanger that now houses vickers Wellington Recovered from Loch Ness in the 1980's also houses other Aircraft and Barnes Wallis Bombs

All the workshops from Circuit days

The Clubhouse

The Test Hill

River Wey

Flying School & Control Tower 1932

Vickers Shed 1925

Hawker's Shed 1925.

Martinsyde Works 1911

Byfleet Junction on the London & South Western Railway's main line from London Waterloo to Woking and the west. (Southern Railway from 1923 and British Railways Southern Region from 1948.)

West Weybridge Station opened 10 July 1927. The name was changed to Byfleet & New Haw in June 1962.

what plane is this? for British twin engined twin tail plane bombers of WWII I can come up with Manchester, Whitley or Hampden I'm not sure this fits the bill for any of those as they don't have four prop blades

Wellington Bombers

WWII Bofors Tower?

WWII Bofors Tower.