Dunstable, Beds. Bygone Aircraft Factories

Phillips & Powis at Reading (Woodley) covered in some detail at (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Aircraft, and (2) Temple, Julian C. Wings Over Woodley – The Story of Miles Aircraft and the Adwest Group. Bourne End, Bucks, UK: Aston Publications, 1987. ISBN 0-946627-12-6.

….and please don’t forget Peter Amos’ monograph on the company (Amos, Peter. Miles Aircraft – The Early Years: The Story of F G Miles and his Aeroplanes, 1925–1939. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd, 2009. ISBN 978-0-85130-410-6) and for those with deep pockets, Don Brown’s seminal history (Brown, Don Lambert. Miles Aircraft Since 1925. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1970. ISBN 0-370-00127-3).

Phillips & Powis at Reading (Woodley) covered in some detail at (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Aircraft, and (2) Temple, Julian C. Wings Over Woodley – The Story of Miles Aircraft and the Adwest Group. Bourne End, Bucks, UK: Aston Publications, 1987. ISBN 0-946627-12-6. If none of those give the answers then I’m sure that the helpful staff at the Museum of Berkshire Aviation will either (a) know, or (b) know who does!
Resmoroh

I did put some other things on about Dunstable aircraft factory’s on an old thread some time back, think it was about the Barton ley Clay airfield?. As K8B say’s I also wrote a small article in the Dunstable and district local history society a few months ago.

Dave

Bygone aircraft factories generally could make an interesting thread. I immediately think of Phillips and Powis at Reading and the Shorts factories on Sheppey and Handley Page at several sites prior to Cricklewood and then ultimately Radlett.

A fuller version of the article by David Underwood is on the Dunstable and District Local History Society website at http://www.dunstablehistory.co.uk/Newsletters/Newsletter38.pdf
– Newsletter no. 38, p.282-283