Originally Posted by
Kemble Pitts
Of course, in amongst all of this, the Fairey Aviation Company was very shoddily treated. They had their factory aerodrome nicely sited close to their factory at Hayes and 'someone' (I've never heard exactly who) decided that Fairey were to be turfed out to make way for a, ahem, much needed RAF aerodrome. I've read that it took until the 1960s for the Company to get compensation.
Yes, for that reason the Fairey hangar survived (on the edge of the old T2 apron) until the mid-1960s.