Originally Posted by
ICT_SLB
As an apprentice at BAC Hurn around 1970, we had a new Inspector arrive from Hatfield. Far from boasting, he said one of his last jobs had been to destroy about a ton of old DeH documents.
What is never clear from reports like this is whether any originals were destroyed, but I'd think not.
My guess is that an Inspector would have been surrounded by working prints which were redundant once the aeroplane concerned was out of production, so nothing would be lost by binning them.