Incidentally, yesterday I counted six Hercules fuselages at Hixon, not four, or are my eyes deceiving me ?

I think some of the ones that were at Bruntingthorpe may have moved to Hixon such as XV301 according to http://www.demobbed.org.uk

17 victor tankers as support in a move from Scotland known as operation Hydraulic

see here http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1967/1967%20-%201554.html?search=lightning singapore

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1965/1965%20-%200028.html

It was scrapped in 1965

Coffer Dam or Caission

This should give you some idea

http://courses.washington.edu/cm420/Lesson4.pdf

A bit more here

http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/yorkshire/york42/2hca.html

and here

http://www.nelsam.org.uk/NEAR/Squadrons/Histories/1Sqn.htm

06/09/1942 Me210 A-1 2331 2H+HA Soesterburg 16/KG6 Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire Moors –

From the descriptions I have read I think this is the one in Ian’s photo as it appears to have disintegrated

06/09/1942 Me210 A-1 2348 2H+CA Soesterburg 16/KG6 New Marske, Redcar

This appears to be the one in Andy’s photos

There was a plastic Spitfire in hangar 4.

X4178 Spitfire IX

This might be uesful

http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/partmanu.htm

I wonder what became of the company and the stock?

Went out of business in 1990 according to Companies House and finally dissolved in 1999