* 1933: A local trade directory lists for Heathrow these: Mrs. Waddell ( Cain's Farm house ); < u > farmers or market gardeners </ u >: Harry Curtis ( Heathrow Farm ), George Dance ( a small house on Heathrow Road nearly opposite the Plough and Harrow pub ), William Howell ( Bathurst ), Frederick Philp ( Heathrow Hall ), Sidney Whittington ( Perry Oaks ), David and John Wild ( Croft House ); < u > other </ u >: Heathrow Sand & Gravel Co ( Colnbrook ) Ltd., Edgar Charles Basham ( The gazette misprinted his surname as Sasham ) ( publican at the Plough and Harrow pub ), Fairey Aviation.

Following a series of mergers and takeovers, the principal successor businesses to the company now trade as WFEL ( formerly Williams Fairey Engineering Limited ) manufacturing portable bridges, Spectris plc and as FBM Babcock Marine Ltd

C. R. Fairey and the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., was awarded £ 4, 000 for work on the Hamble Baby seaplane.

On 13 March 1959 Flight reported that Fairey Aviation Ltd was to be reorganised following a proposal to concentrate aircraft and allied manufacturing activities in the United Kingdom into a new wholly owned subsidiary called the Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd.

It is proposed to change the company's name to the Fairey Co. Ltd., and to concentrate general engineering activities in the Stockport Aviation Co. Ltd., whose name would become Fairey Engineering Ltd.

* Fairey Hydraulics Ltd, Heston, Hydraulic power controls and filters for aircraft ; – Sold in 1999 to a management buyout, name changed to Claverham Ltd, bought in 2001 by Hamilton Standard.

* Fairey Engineering Ltd, Stockport, General and nuclear engineering ;

* Fairey Nuclear Ltd, Heston, Nuclear components and light engineering ; see also Dungeness nuclear power station

* Fairey Industrial Products Ltd, Heston, Management company ;

* Fairey Winches Ltd, Tavistock, Vehicle overdrives, winches and hubs ;

* Fairey Marine Holdings Ltd, Hamble, Management company ;

* Fairey Marine ( East Cowes ) Ltd, East Cowes, Ship and boat building ;

* Fairey Exhibitions Ltd, Hamble, Exhibition stand contractors ;

* Fairey Marine Ltd, Hamble, Boat building and repair ;

The sale did not include Fairey Air Surveys or the works at Heston which was home to the weapon division, which had a contract for research into advanced anti-tank missile systems.

* Fairey Developments Ltd, Heston, Management company:

Fairey, the former Deputy Minister of Education, the then-current provincial Director of Industrial and Technical Education and also the Regional Director of the Canadian Vocational Training Program.

The Plover had a good performance but only six were built for service in 1923 ; the Royal Navy preferring the Fairey Flycatcher despite its lower speed.

In 1929, Fairey Aviation bought of land just southeast of Heathrow hamlet, to establish an airfield for flight testing ; later purchases gradually enlarged this airfield to about.

* Fairey Yacht Harbours Ltd, Hamble, Boat handling, berthing and storage ;

* Fairey Surveys Ltd, Maidenhead, Aerial and geophysical survey and mapping ;

* Fairey Surveys ( Scotland ) Ltd, Livingston, Aerial and geophysical survey and mapping ;

However, these businesses were disposed of in 1986 as part of Pearson wishing to concentrate on core activities ; acquired by Williams Holdings they became Williams Fairey Engineering Ltd.

At noon, 32 Fairey Battles attack German ground forces in Luxembourg, losing 13 aircraft shot down and the rest damaged ; a second raid by 32 Battles sees the loss of 10 more aircraft.

On February 12, six Fleet Air Arm Fairey Swordfish – all of which are shot down ; their commander, Lieutenant Commander Eugene Esmonde receives a posthumous Victoria Cross for the attack – and some Royal Air Force Coastal Command Beauforts attempt torpedo attacks, but score no hits.

Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers, 12 in total, flew into the Fleet Air Arm ( FAA ) base at Hal Far ; the 767 Training Squadron, who had escaped southern France following the French capitulation.

Until the return of the Luftwaffe over Malta, the RAF defenders had claimed 199 aircraft shot down from June 1940 — December 1941, while losses were at least 90 Hurricanes, three Fairey Fulmars, one Gladiator in air combat ; ten more Hurricanes and one Gladiator destroyed in accidents, and many more destroyed on the ground.

On 3 June 1940 a Fairey Battle was taken for an unauthorised flight by an unqualified pilot and crashed after several failed landing attempts ; the aircraft was destroyed and the pilot killed.

Fairey Albacores of the Royal Navy dropped flares to illuminate targets for Vickers Wellington medium bombers and for the artillery ; also, the minefields that were thought to be thin turned out to be deep.

About 150 of these were operated by the army and included Dewoitine D. 27 and Curtiss P-36 Hawk fighters ; Breguet 19, Fairey III and Stearman 76 D1 reconnaissance planes ; Northrop A-17, North American NA-16, Martin B-10 heavy combat craft, Focke-Wulf Fw 58 as multi-role planes, and Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra, Junkers Ju 52, Douglas Dolphin, Curtiss T-32 Condor II and Fairchild 82 transporters.

The Fairey FD2 experimental aircraft had used a droop nose ; when one was converted into the BAC 221 as a testbed for the Concorde wing shape, the droop nose was carried over.

* Industrial Filtration Business

# Filtration using ceramic filters

* Filtration through ceramic or sand filters

Filtration experiments with paper and finest porcelain Chamberland filters were replicated by Dmitry Ivanovsky in 1892 and Martinus Beijerinck in 1898 who showed that the infectious agent of the tobacco mosaic disease was in fact infilterable.

In March 1937 British Airways Ltd operated from Croydon, moving to Heston Aerodrome in May 1938.

Lack of adequate space at Heston resulted in Airwork Ltd relocating to Gatwick.

* Heston Aircraft Company Ltd, a manufacturer and modifier of aircraft ( 1934-1948 )

After running into financial difficulties, Hillman was bought up by Whitehall Security Corporation Ltd and merged with three other airlines that they already owned to form British Airways Ltd. Operations began in 1936, but after 4 months all flights were moved to Heston Aerodrome, leaving just a small number of private aircraft.

After GM announced that same day that the sale was to an undisclosed Chinese company, CNN and the New York Times identified the buyer of the Hummer truck unit as China-based Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd. Later that day, Sichuan Tengzhong itself announced the deal on their own website.

In April 1920, the Government sold the site and its contents to the Slough Trading Co. Ltd. Repair of ex-army vehicles continued until 1925, when the Slough Trading Company Act was passed allowing the company ( renamed Slough Estates Ltd ) to establish an Industrial Estate.

Ramsay ’ s high standing in scientific circles led to his unfortunate endorsement in 1905 of the Industrial and Engineering Trust Ltd., a corporation with a supposed secret process to extract gold from seawater.

The deal ultimately earned David Geffen an estimated US $ 800 million in stock ( until the Japanese conglomerate, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd .' s cash acquisition of MCA in 1991, made Geffen a billionaire ) and an employment contract that ran until 1995.

From 1935 to October 1, 2008 the company name was " Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd ."

* Miyata Industrial Co Ltd

During 1999, Hyder Industrial Ltd. built the UK ’ s largest " run-of river " hydro-electric plant at Beeston Rylands Weir.

Today Napier Turbochargers is a wholly self-owned company employing around 160 people, having previously been owned by Siemens Power Generation, specifically Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd being based on the same site in Lincoln when it bought the neighbouring Alstom Power Turbines in March 2003 ; Alstom ( former GEC-Alsthom ) had owned the company since GEC bought English Electric in the late 1960s.

Other businesses operating within the town include motorsport, high performance engineering, distribution, engineering, environmental technology and renewable energy, digital and creative media, financial and business services, and global brands, once such brand being Cummins UK at Park Farm, and major park home manufacturer Tingdene Homes Ltd at Finedon Road Industrial Estate.

* Zhengzhou Unique Industrial Equipment Co., Ltd., a large tractor and agricultural equipment manufacturer.

was a brand used by Panasonic Corporation ( formerly Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd .) to sell home appliances, personal appliances, and industrial appliances and was the first name used by Konosuke Matsushita's electric firm to sell his battery-powered bicycle lamps, hoping that they would be a product used by all of Japan, hence the name " National ".

* Brand History, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

He was unemployed until October 1976, when he found another job as an HGV driver for T & WH Clark ( Holdings Ltd .) on the Canal Road Industrial Estate in Bradford.

On February 1, 2005, sales and production of the software were frozen pending an appeal by the company against a ruling of the Tokyo District Court which states that there is a breach of a patent owned by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

OWL was bought for over £ 7m in 1989 by Matsushita Electric Industrial ( MEI ) of Japan and became Panasonic Office Workstations Ltd ..

* Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.

* 1897-The Nippon Kangyo Bank, Ltd. and the Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited are established as a governmental institution.

* Xianli LING-Founder of Shantou Chun Yuan Industrial ( Group ) Co., Ltd.

Agricultural based industries include BOCM Pauls who have a large animal feed mill on the Penrith Industrial Estate and until 2005 there was another Feed Mill at Gilwilly originally belonging to Cumberland and Westmorland Farmers Ltd but eventually becoming part of the Carrs Milling Industries group.

* Represented underwriters Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, China International Capital Corporation, and ICEA Capital Ltd. in connection with the $ 22 billion initial public offering and dual listing of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China ( ICBC ) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange.

* Akio Tanii, ex-CEO, Panasonic / Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

In January 2000, Kyocera acquired photocopier manufacturer Mita Industrial Co., Ltd., and created Kyocera Mita Corporation ( now KYOCERA Document Solutions Corporation ), headquartered in Osaka, Japan, with subsidiaries in more than 25 nations.