Sorry dook, I think I may have misled you slightly whilst trying not to hand you the answer on a plate, relying on memory and later experience with them, I now find that things were far more involved than it seemed at the time!! One of the principle characters involved was a regular lunch time visitor to the Public House run by my mother (opposite my school) and he later became quite famous! I will tell you now that my school was called Prince Avenue Junior.
Checking out the history, it was in fact taken over by a non-manufacturer that was providing defence support services to the Royal Air Force, the Fleet Air Arm and other overseas air forces. It also played a significant role in Post War civil aviation, both here and abroad.