* Fairey Filtration Ltd, Heston, Industrial filters ;

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.

In the post-war period, from the late 1950s onwards, Fairey acquired Mayflower Automotive Products, including their factory in Tavistock, Devon and with it the designs of its products, including winch and free-wheeling front hubs for Land Rover vehicles.

* 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 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:

Charles Richard Fairey was seconded there for a short time, before setting up his own company, Fairey Aviation, which relocated across the railway.

The fin actuation subsystem ( FAS ) was originally designed and manufactured by the Claverham Group ( formerly Fairey Hydraulics Limited ) a Somerset, UK, based division of the U. S. company Hamilton Sundstrand.

Founded in 1915 by Charles Richard Fairey ( later Sir Richard Fairey ) on his departure from Short Brothers, the company first built under licence or as subcontractor aircraft designed by other manufacturers.

Under these changes, the Fairey Co. would become a holding company, with control of policy and finance throughout the group.

Fairey went into liquidation when it introduced a Britten-Norman Islander production line into its subsidiary company, Avions Fairey and overproduced the plane and subsequently faced redundancy payments of about £ 16 million in Belgium.

In March 1949, the company undertook repair and overhaul work for the Royal Canadian Navy on the Supermarine Seafire and the Fairey Firefly and later the Hawker Sea Fury and also undertook modification work on the Grumman Avenger.

Fairey Australasia was the first company to be established at the Weapons Research Establishment ( WRE ).

In 1935 the Fairey company received a substantial order for Hendon night bombers and established production lines at the Heaton Chapel factory.

The company became Williams Fairey Engineering in 1986, and was then taken over by Kidde part of the American giant United Technologies Corporation.

The Fairey company was also involved in the early development of pilotless aircraft which led to the development of radio controlled pilotless target aircraft in Britain and the United States in the 1930s.

For some sixty years the band was associated with the company and its successors, although the Fairey Band has now had to turn to external sources for financial backing.

Throughout its history though the band has retained its identity with the company under guises as the Fairey Aviation Works Band, Williams Fairey Band and later Fairey ( FP Music ) Band.

* Fairey Aviation Company, British aircraft company

* Fairey Marine Ltd, a shipbuilding company based on the River Hamble, Southampton, England

Another British company, the former aircraft builder Fairey, built a successful all-mechanical unit for the Land Rover, which is still in production in America today.

Aircraft equipping the squadron included the Sopwith 1½ Strutter, built by the Fairey Aviation company, then situated in Hayes.

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.