The B & P factories at Mousehold and at Riverside are long gone, and they were only in the aviation business for 21 years. The Boulton Paul/Dowty/Smiths/GE/Moog factory at Wolverhampton was in the aviation business from 1936 to this year, when Moog, who bought the product line if not the heritage, moved to a brand new factory half a mile away. The Heritage Centre is currently packing up and must be out by 31st March next year. Everything has been gifted to the RAF Museum at Cosford. I expect the factory to be demolished shortly afterwards, but it would be good to have the Demon fly over.

I see it is to be auctioned on 5th December, so we will await the results of that.