In 1911 the company name was changed to Vickers Ltd and expanded its operations into aircraft manufacture by the formation of Vickers Ltd ( Aviation Department ) and a Vickers School of Flying was opened at Brooklands, Surrey on 20 January 1912.

Brooklands Flying Club are based at Sywell and fly the Aero AT-3 and Cessna 172 which are used as trainers for Private Pilot Licenses ( PPL ), Joint Aviation Requirements ( JAR ) and night rating training.

Vickers Aviation Ltd set up a factory in 1915, and Brooklands soon became a major centre for the construction, testing and supply of military aeroplanes.

The original pre-WW1 Brooklands Aero Club was re-formed by the BARC in May 1930 with Percy Brad, ey as Manager and the Brooklands Flying Club was established by Brooklands Aviation in early 1933.

Brooklands Aviation won a War Department contract for pilot training for the Royal Air Force.

During WW2, Brooklands Aviation became a contractor to the Civilian Repair Organisation, repairing various types of damaged aircraft, particularly Vickers Wellingtons.

After leaving school he joined the Sopwith Aviation Company in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, as one of its first apprentices and no doubt also worked in the Sopwith sheds at the nearby Brooklands aerodrome and racing circuit.

During this time he spent much of his spare time at Brooklands, then the hub of British aviation, and in June 1912 he got a job as a mechanic for the Sopwith Aviation Company.

The Museum project began after a highly successful temporary exhibition about Brooklands was staged in 1977 by Elmbridge Museum in Weybridge and, with support from British Aerospace, Elmbridge Borough Council, Gallaher Ltd and many dedicated individuals, this led to the selection of a 30 acre heritage site in the NE corner of Brooklands.

Another initiative was taken in the early 1990s by the developers Trafalgar Brookmount Ltd who commissioned an artist to design and produce two large brown terracotta ' gate statements '; these are located at the east end of Wellington Way and the south end of Sopwith Drive and feature representative images of Brooklands ' pre-1940 history namely the Napier-Railton, Vickers Vimy and the two former Clubhouses.

In 1938, both companies were re-organised as Vickers-Armstrongs ( Aircraft ) Ltd, and a new ' art deco ' headquarters designed by architect C. Howard Crane was built at its Brooklands factory in Surrey although the former Supermarine and Vickers works continued to brand their products under their former names.

In partnership with another engineer, Major Ken Thomson from New Zealand, he started Thomas Inventions Development Co. Ltd., based inside the Brooklands circuit itself.

This changed in 1887 when British Xylonite Ltd. purchased the Brooklands Farm and built their factory, which was later renamed BX Plastics.

Brooklands Flying Club was the first UK flight school to operate an online booking system.

Webb was educated at Town Farm Junior School Stanwell, Ashford County Grammar School, Middlesex, Slough Grammar School and Brooklands Technical College.

A flying school was also established, with premises at Brooklands, then the centre of activity for British aviation, where Bristol rented a hangar, and at Larkhill on Salisbury Plain, where in June 1910 a school was established on of land leased from the War Office.

It was then taken to Brooklands for flight trials, where it immediately became apparent that it had an unsatisfactory wing-section and insufficient power, and even though Bristol fitted it with a new set of wings it could only manage a single brief hop on 28 May, after which it was abandoned.

His family moved to Farnham when he was two years old, so his father could be near to Brooklands race track.

Brooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England.

The Brooklands circuit was the brainchild of Hugh Locke-King, and was opened on 17 June 1907 as the first purpose-built banked motor race circuit in the world.

Apparently drawing inspiration from the development at Brooklands, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was built soon afterwards and held its inaugural race in August 1909.

The world record for the first person to cover in 1 hour was set by Percy E. Lambert at Brooklands, on 15 February 1913 when driving his 4. 5 litre sidevalve Talbot.

During World War I, Brooklands closed to motor racing and was requisitioned by the War Office.

Motor racing resumed in 1920 after extensive track repairs and Grand Prix motor racing was established at Brooklands in 1926 by Henry Segrave, after his victories in the 1923 French Grand Prix and the San Sebastián Grand Prix the following year raised interest in the sport in Britain.

The second British Grand Prix was staged there in 1927 and these two events resulted in improved facilities at Brooklands.

Racing returned to Brooklands for one day in 2009 when the track was recreated in full-scale for a slot-car race, as part of a television show.

In 1987, Brooklands Museum Trust was formed with Sir Peter G Masefield as Chairman, and began to record, research, preserving and interpret all aspects the site's heritage.

As No. 8 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ) it was formed at Brooklands, Surrey on 1 January 1915, equipped with the Royal Aircraft Factory B. E. 2c.

Vigilant was a private development begun in 1956 by the Vickers-Armstrongs Guided Weapons Department at Brooklands, Surrey for the anti-tank role in the British Army, the name being formed from VIsually Guided Infantry Light ANti-Tank missile.

He had a spectacular accident in a low-chassis Invicta S-type at Brooklands in 1931, skidding into a telegraph pole.

While in hospital after his 1931 Brooklands wreck, Davis wrote Motor Racing.

Straight started competing in 1931 with a Brooklands Riley competing at Shelsley Walsh, Southport and Brooklands circuit.

Sammy Davis had a spectacular accident in an S-type at Brooklands in 1931.

He created his own team of MG Midgets in 1931 and won the Brooklands Double Twelve race, but then became more involved in the organisational side of motor sport.

In 1927, on the death of his friend Parry-Thomas, Railton closed the Arab factory and moved to Brooklands working for Thomson & Taylor becoming their Technical Director with responsibility for John Cobb's 1933 Napier Railton car which took the Outer Circuit record in 1933 and Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird Land Speed Record cars of 1931 to 1935.

He would also come second at the 1929 Saorstat Cup, Phoenix Park, and at the Brooklands Double-Twelve ( 24 hours in two shifts, because the track was prohibited from holding racing at night ) and.

The company also operated the resident Brooklands School of Flying, as well as those at Lympne, Shoreham and Sywell Aerodromes in the later 1930s.

The company also produced trucks and successfully raced a number of its own car designs, including the 2. 8 litre 15, dubbed ‘ PDQ ’ ( Pretty Damn Quick ), which on 25 October 1910 took the flying mile record at Brooklands at.

The company was based at 280 Brooklands Road, Manchester, M23 9HD.

In 1951, construction of a new hard runway required a section of the motor circuit's famous Byfleet Banking to be removed to allow Vickers Valiant V bombers to be flown out to nearby Wisley aerodrome which offered a longer runway and less built-up surroundings than Brooklands.

By the time of the R101 crash, Wallis had moved to Vickers ' aircraft division at the Brooklands motor circuit and aerodrome between Byfleet and Weybridge in Surrey.

* There is a Barnes Wallis Drive in Byfleet in Surrey within the former Brooklands aerodrome and motor circuit.

Ducrocq took Alcock on as a mechanic at the Brooklands aerodrome, Surrey, where he learned to fly at Ducrocq's flying school, gaining his pilot's licence there in November 1912.

Byfleet and New Haw Station is in close proximity to the historical Brooklands racetrack and aerodrome, which date back to 1907.