IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/1095
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: HESTON AERODROME
Date(s): 1935
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Airwork Limited x Airwork Services Limited
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Airwork Limited, also known as Airwork Services Limited, is a wholly owned subsidiary company of VT Group plc. It has a long and rich history in providing a variety of defence support services to the Royal Air Force (RAF), Fleet Air Arm and overseas air forces as well as having played an important role in the development of civil aviation - both in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Airwork was founded in 1928 by Sir Nigel Norman and Alan Muntz with the opening of the private Heston Aerodrome, then in Middlesex, registering at Companies House in December 1936.
Airwork moved out of Heston in 1935 due to a lack of adequate space and relocated to Gatwick where it continued with a contract to maintain Whitley bombers for the RAF.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Airwork Limited relating to Heston Aerodrome, comprising two annotated copies of a plan entitled 'Heston Aerodrome: Survey of land to be purchased by Airwork Ltd. April 5th 1935' and two annotated Ordnance Survey maps of the area.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Four items
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received in 1970 from Airwork Ltd.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009