Mudlarking at Martlesham

摘要

In september 1947 the famous Miles Aircraft Ltd was in financial trouble and collapsed. The Ministry of Supply, not wishing to disperse a talented design team, urged Handley Page to take over the factory and airfield at Woodley, near Reading, adding the sweetener that a production order for 50 Marathon aircraft would follow. In the event ten were cancelled. The old company Handley Page Transport Ltd was resuscitated and the new sub-rnsidiary, formed on July 5, 1948, was known as Handley Page (Reading) Ltd.