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168:. Jicwood Ltd., the subsidiary company, manufactured fully compressed wood for various purposes. An extremely light sandwich material which consists of expanded rubber between either plywood or a light alloy were also manufactured. Samples of this product 24 ins. sq., weighing 52 ozs., were able to withstand a distributive load of 1 ½ tons when supported at two edges. The properties of this material were those required in aircraft flooring, bomb doors, superstructures and bulkheads for motor torpedo boats. 1411: 287:
Inc's Aerospace & Defence division based at the Windmill Road site producing AC and DC brushless, mixed flow, tubeaxial and vaneaxial fans, high-pressure blowers, AC and DC brushless motors and drivecsystems, build-to-print and custom subassemblies, electronic and fault sensing devices, electric
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Airscrew became a limited company in 1931, and by 1938 had formed Jicwood Ltd as a joint venture between Itself and Halila, Ltd., of Bush House, London. The nominal capital of £36,000 was taken up between the Airscrew Co. and Halila. The board consisted of Mr. J. D. Titler (chairman), Dr. Henry
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Under Bryant & May ownership two associated companies were created; Airscrew-Weyroc Canada (a chipboard making facility) & Airscrew Fans Ltd. The company then passed into Swedish control when Bryant & May merged into
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Charles Watts (co-designer of the Leitner Watts propeller), Mr. R. Bradfield and Mr. F. T. Swann. Mr. Swann, who was a director of Halila, Ltd., joined the board of The Airscrew Co.(Flight of 9 December 1937)
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and most importantly laminate wood products, manufactured as 'Weyroc', and also glass fibre products. The company changed its name to The Airscrew Company and Jicwood Ltd in 1950.
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Defence Systems for an undisclosed sum, following Frazer-Nash's entry into receivership. The Frazer-Nash Defence Systems division was sold in 1996 to ML Aviation
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in 1957, shortly after J D Titler's death in April 1957. Under the terms of the agreement Bryant and May invested £500,000 in the company. Eoin Mekie, chairman of
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for cooling and extraction purposes. In 1986, the Weybridge site was sold, demolished and redeveloped and Airscrew moved to 111 Windmill Road,
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fitted with Lang propellers; a letter held at Chertsey Museum confirms this and one of these four-bladed propellers survives at
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The Airscrew Company became a principal subsidiary of the Airtechnology Group of the UK and has since been absorbed into
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the architectural firm founded by Richard Sheppard designed The Jicwood Bungalow in 1944 in response to the
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Wartime production requirements raised staff numbers to nearly 2,000 by 1945, and the company had its own
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The company diversified further and developed a wide range of products, notably aircraft and
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Reinventing the Propeller: Aeronautical Specialty and the Triumph of the Modern Airplane
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In 1966 Airscrew-Weyroc Ltd, received an order for ten fans for the Anglo-French
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The company was bought by the Howden Group in c.1971, developing a range of
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and used materials such as stressed timber used in aircraft manufacture.
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The organisation employed around 200 staff at a site in Hamm Moor Lane,
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Airscrew products have been used in various locomotives such as the
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and bulkheads, transit containers, ventilating equipment and
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Street map of HAMM MOOR LANE in ADDLESTONE in SURREY in KT15
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was based at Hamm Moor Lane and at its peak supplied wooden
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Around this time Weyroc products were manufactured in
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Index

Surrey
propellers
Weybridge
Lang Propellers
propellers
Alcock and Brown
Vickers Vimy
Brooklands Museum
Addlestone
wind tunnels
Home Guard
St John's Ambulance
Sheppard Robson
Need for temporary housing in the post war period
Bus panels
wind tunnels
Bryant & May
British Aviation Services
Metal Propellers Ltd
RAE
Saunders-Roe
SR-N1hovercraft
Swedish Match
Concorde
fans
Sunbury on Thames
Frazer-Nash
Marcel Lobelle
Hexham
Egger

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