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

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Title [EAW003347] Aircraft factories, RAF Brooklands and the Brooklands Motor Course, Brooklands, 1946
Reference EAW003347
Date 13-November-1946
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Place name BROOKLANDS
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 506537, 162343
Longitude / Latitude -0.47000762777702, 51.349665609791
National Grid Reference TQ065623

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LAA BATTERY: e46182

Matt Aldred edob.mattaldred.com
Monday 19th of July 2021 03:44:50 PM
LAA BATTERY: e46183

Matt Aldred edob.mattaldred.com
Monday 19th of July 2021 03:44:31 PM
AIRFIELD: S0003918

Matt Aldred edob.mattaldred.com
Monday 19th of July 2021 03:43:54 PM
BOFORS TOWER: e11346

Matt Aldred edob.mattaldred.com
Monday 19th of July 2021 03:42:33 PM
BOFORS TOWER: e36738

Matt Aldred edob.mattaldred.com
Monday 19th of July 2021 03:41:48 PM
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.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 05:03:11 PM
Main crossing bridge from East to West for vehicular traffic during 1950's to closure of Brooklands circa 1980.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:59:17 PM
Bridge in use today that carried all aircraft into the Brooklands Museum.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:56:46 PM
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..

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:47:36 PM
Site of South end of concrete runway subsequently built circa early 1950's.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:43:31 PM
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.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:41:12 PM
Walton-On-Thames Bridge.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:31:05 PM
River Thames at Walton-On- Thames.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:29:58 PM
Weybridge Town Centre.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:27:25 PM
Steam Locomotive hauling several passenger carriages toward Waterloo London.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:26:31 PM
Railway Bridge over River Wey.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:25:04 PM
Steam Locomotive hauling several freight wagons.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:23:29 PM
Weybridge Railway Station from Waterloo London.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:22:22 PM
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.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:20:16 PM
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.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:16:52 PM
Brooklands Airfield Fire Station.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:07:51 PM
Wing Construction shop for Vickers Valiant, Vickers Vanguard & VC10 wings.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:05:59 PM
Fuselage shop for Vickers Valiant & subsequently Vickers Vanguard during period circa 1952 to 1962

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 04:03:44 PM
Chemical Processes and Heat treatment department.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 03:52:52 PM
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.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 03:51:10 PM
Systems Test House.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 03:46:57 PM
Vickers Armstrongs Ltd (Aircraft) design offices.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 03:45:35 PM
Main Entrance Gate to Vickers Armstrongs from Brooklands Road.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 03:44:18 PM
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.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 03:42:48 PM
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".

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 03:37:12 PM
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.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 01:36:16 PM
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

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 01:16:21 PM
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.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 12:55:34 PM
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.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 12:21:53 PM
WWII Bofors LAA emplacement.

cptpies
Friday 30th of November 2018 12:02:47 PM
WWII Bofors LAA emplacement

cptpies
Friday 30th of November 2018 12:02:16 PM
WW2 Camouflage Scheme Ground

Sparky
Wednesday 13th of September 2017 08:22:53 AM
WW2 Static Water Supply SWS

Sparky
Wednesday 13th of September 2017 08:22:00 AM
Hawker hangar camouflaged as a row of houses.

DACS
Wednesday 23rd of December 2015 06:24:07 PM
Site of current Mercedes Benz World

brian
Friday 21st of August 2015 02:20:53 AM
High Speed Banking

brian
Friday 21st of August 2015 02:18:35 AM
Site of current Bus Museum

brian
Friday 21st of August 2015 02:17:16 AM
Hanger that now houses vickers Wellington Recovered from Loch Ness in the 1980's also houses other Aircraft and Barnes Wallis Bombs

brian
Friday 21st of August 2015 02:16:02 AM
All the workshops from Circuit days

brian
Friday 21st of August 2015 02:13:46 AM

brian
Friday 21st of August 2015 02:12:12 AM

brian
Friday 21st of August 2015 02:10:23 AM

Class31
Wednesday 26th of February 2014 11:29:19 AM
Flying School & Control Tower 1932

Class31
Wednesday 26th of February 2014 11:24:17 AM
This in later years circa 1950's became the Airlines Technical & Maintenance School for Maintenance Engineers run by Vickers Armstrongs for the Viscount. I attended one of those courses during circa 1958 as part of my apprenticeship along with engineers from EgyptAir, Middle East Airlines of The Lebanon and others.

Maurice Ungless
Friday 3rd of January 2020 01:23:02 PM
Vickers Shed 1925

Class31
Wednesday 26th of February 2014 11:23:22 AM
Hawker's Shed 1925.

Class31
Wednesday 26th of February 2014 11:22:59 AM
Martinsyde Works 1911

Class31
Wednesday 26th of February 2014 11:18:01 AM
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.)

Class31
Wednesday 26th of February 2014 10:25:57 AM
West Weybridge Station opened 10 July 1927. The name was changed to Byfleet & New Haw in June 1962.

Class31
Wednesday 26th of February 2014 10:08:48 AM
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

Al
Tuesday 7th of January 2014 12:13:44 PM
The plane is probably an early Vickers Viking, as it looks to have four bladed props

mcgeacs
Tuesday 7th of January 2014 12:38:53 PM
Could also be a Warwick, updated version of the Wellington which,depending on the engines used, also had four bladed props...but tricky to tell from the image.

mcgeacs
Tuesday 7th of January 2014 12:45:58 PM
It must almost certainly be a Vickers aeroplane and could either be a Warwick or a Viking.

Autair
Wednesday 5th of August 2015 10:25:57 PM
Wellington Bombers

Al
Tuesday 7th of January 2014 11:45:15 AM
More likely to be Warwicks?

Autair
Wednesday 5th of August 2015 10:24:29 PM
WWII Bofors Tower?

cptpies
Tuesday 7th of January 2014 09:28:13 AM
This was one of three defensive anti-aircraft gun towers built in and around Brooklands c.1940-41 and were each equipped with 40mm Bofors guns. The other towers were demolished c.1980 and in 2006 but this one survives as part of a Scheduled Monument.

Autair
Wednesday 5th of August 2015 10:22:57 PM
WWII Bofors Tower.

cptpies
Tuesday 7th of January 2014 09:24:43 AM

User Comment Contributions

View looking north.

Class31
Wednesday 26th of February 2014 09:56:21 AM
The title for this fascinating image is misleading and I believe it is incorrect as Brooklands has never been an RAF station and in 1946, the only aircraft factory left on the site was operated by Vickers-Armstrongs (the Hawker factory transferred to Langley and closed by late 1942).

Autair
Friday 7th of February 2014 09:09:19 PM
Bofors Towers at Brooklands.

cptpies
Tuesday 7th of January 2014 09:28:40 AM