Fairey Engineering Ltd also made Nuclear Reactor cores and fuelling machines for Dungeness B and Trawsfynydd.

The CEGB took over project management, issued light penalties in order not to cripple Fairey and International Combustion, and appointed British Nuclear Design and Construction ( BNDC ) as main contractor.

In 1946 the company diversified into the Nuclear industry, forming Fairey Stainless.

* 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 Industrial Products Ltd, Heston, Management company ;

* Fairey Filtration Ltd, Heston, Industrial filters ;

* 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:

* August 2 – As one of the components of Operation Hurry, the first of many operations in which Allied aircraft carriers fly off Royal Air Force fighters for service at Malta, twelve Fairey Swordfish from the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal make the first night raid on Italian soil in the early morning hours, attacking Cagliari in southern Sardinia.

On 10 March 1956, the Fairey Delta 2, with Heaton Chapel components, broke the World Air Speed Record at 1820 km / h ( 1132 mph ).

Birmingham engineering works later diversify with all manner of industries relating to the development and manufacture of aircraft components including assembly of whole planes during war years such as Spitfires, Hawker Hurricanes, Fairey Battle light bombers, Mercury and Pegasus aero engines, Short Stirling four-engined heavy bombers and Avro Lancasters ( towards the end of World War II ).

This naturally led to the use of light bombers as the preferred platform for airborne radars, and in May 1939 the first experimental fit took place, on a Fairey Battle.

RAF Benson was officially opened on Saturday 1 April 1939 and its first aircraft were two squadrons of Fairey Battle light bombers which began to arrive a few days later.

* Fairey Battle – light bomber, 1936

* Fairey Battle – light bomber, 1936

The high-level bombers are ineffective and Fairey Fulmars from Ark Royal shoot down two of them, but the six torpedo bombers fatally damage the destroyer and cripple the light cruiser.

* December 13 – A Fairey Seafox floatplane catapulted from the British light cruiser spots fire for her guns while she fires on the German " pocket battleship " Admiral Graf Spee during the Battle of the River Plate.

The squadron replaced its elderly DH. 9As with new Fairey IIIF light bombers from January 1928.

Fairey Battle light bombers, Mercury and Pegasus aero engines were produced, along with the Short Stirling four-engined heavy bomber and Hawker Hurricane fighter.

* Fairey Fox, a British light bomber biplane of the 1920s-1930s

A Fairey Swordfish found the men in the water the next afternoon and an hour later the light cruiser HMS Enterprise and the destroyers HMS Paladin and HMS Panther arrived to rescue the survivors.

Other Aircraft deployed by the RAF in France as part of the Advanced Air Striking Force were Bristol Blenheims and Fairey Battles ( both light bombers ).

* Fairey Battle, light bomber of the Royal Air Force built by Fairey Aviation in the late 1930s

Brum also produced Spitfire s, Hawker Hurricane s, Fairey Battle light bombers, Mercury and Pegasus aero engines, Short Stirling four-engined heavy bombers and Avro Lancaster s during the Second World War.

12 Squadron was based at RAF Andover from March 1924, along with No. 13 Squadron, operating Fairey Fawn light bombers.

These tanks were first installed in the Fairey Battle light bomber with other versions installed in Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane fighters and larger aircraft such as the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber.

After a minimal amount of construction, RAF Alconbury was tested in May 1938 when No. 63 Squadron, the first to be equipped with the Fairey Battle light bomber, flew in from its home station of RAF Upwood five miles ( 8 km ) away.

The engineering interests were strengthened in 1980 by the acquisition of the high technology businesses of Fairey, and their merging with Pearson's other engineering interests in 1982.

After the end of aircraft production the Heaton Chapel works became Fairey Engineering Ltd and began production of medium and heavy engineering including portable bridges for military and emergency services use, notably the Medium Girder Bridge.

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.