Originally Posted by
possel
If it did, it was THE Rotodyne, as they only completed one (XE521).
It did go to Belgium and France (and back to Heathrow) in 1959, and there are photos of it over the docks in East London in the same year, so it could easily have gone to Hayes as well.
I don't recall there being ever being any 'coal yard' adjacent to the old Fairey works at Hayes?
By the 60's the factory was pretty much surrounded by housing.