Aston Martin - former factory at Hanworth Park (1947-1964)
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According to the popular enthusiasts' website, AstonMartins.com, shortly after David Brown took ownership of Aston Martin in 1947, he also purchased the business and assets of the nearby situated Lagonda company, but not the Staines factory.
As the Victoria Road factory had sustained considerable wartime damage, David Brown needed to relocate both concerns - and leased some hangars on the airfield site of Hanworth Park, Feltham, which was just a half a mile away from Victoria Road. This became the immediate post war home for both Aston Martin and Lagonda so the cars from the 2-litre sports through to the DB Mark III are today known as the Feltham cars, even though many were not actually built there.
As David Brown had purchased the Tickford works at Newport Pagnell in the 1950s and relocated Aston Martin Lagonda (AML) there for the modern sports saloon DB4 production, Feltham was very much diminished. It remained the centre for service, engineering development and racing but, eventually closed in the mid 1960s with the demise of Aston Martin's Competitions Department.
This site has a fascinating history. Hanworth Aerodrome was a grass airfield, operational from 1917-1919 and
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