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Atcham Tower
There was a short article in Flight circa 1946 with a diagram of the metal mesh runways. !
I believe this is what was known as Pierced Steel Planking, or PSP, steel plate, two skins pressed together with a lot of circular holes in it for drainage and lightness. My father laid plenty of it in Burma for DC3s in WW2 to reinforce grass strips during the monsoon season.