HESTON AERODROME

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/1095
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full 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 & 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.

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

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
July to October 2009