Ford Southampton plant
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The Ford Southampton plant was a motor vehicle assembly plant, located in Swaythling on the north eastern outskirts of Southampton, England. It was the western European centre for production of the Fo
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Ford Transit vans awaiting export from Southampton Docks
Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft
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Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer of the World War II era. They were primarily a repair and overhaul shop, but also a construction shop for other companies' designs, notably t
Ford Southampton plant
…The plant, on a 44-acre (180,000 m2) site near Southampton Airport, was built as a shadow factory to assemble aircraft components for engineering firm Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft, and was opened by the Mayor of Southampton on 2 February 1939. At the outbreak of World War II, the factory and its supply chain were switched to…
The Cunliffe-Owen OA-1 in Egypt, 1942.