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Coventry Corporation Transport Society

Works Services to Whitley Aerodrome


In the early 1920s, AWA bought the old RAF airfield at Whitley.  This became the main manufacturing centre until the opening of the Baginton factory in 1936.  After the war, it continued manufacturing and later became a rocket motor test centre.  Anyone riding a bicycle along the Stonebridge Highway in the late 1950s would have been startled by the roar from the direction of the airfield!