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also at Prince of Wales Road, later inc. Ipswich they also leased other properties, possibly from their accountants, the only other person covered during all this period was Stanly Howes. A/c's for 1913, 1914,1915, 1918, 1920 to 1926, 1933 to 1936. 1913 a/c s mention that it was the First year of trading ( for Howes & Sons. Limited) From the net found out that Mr Stanley Howes 1874 - 1968 (93 years). 1918 a/c mentions Boulton and Paul paid them £4372 for cancellation of agreement to manufacture Aeroplanes. Howes was one of Norwich's oldest and most respected businessmen, a doyen of the Norwich motor trade and a pioneer of the local aviation industry. For more than 60 years, he was very active in City business circles. Managing director of the family engineering and garage business. He was on the board of Boulton & Paul, Ltd, to 1962. His father had succeeded, an old-established coach building works in Chapel Field on the site of the present garage. The firm was established there in 1784. Mr Howes was one of the first trained motor mechanics in Norwich and served his apprenticeship with the Wolseley Tool & Car Works, then a small concern in a Birmingham back street. He worked on the Gordon Bennett racing cars. One of the first men in Norfolk to own and drive a car. Founder member and chairman of the Eastern Counties District of the Society of Motor Manufacturers. The firm under his leadership was one of the original entries in the first motor show at Olympia. The first world war soon brought a call for aeropolanes. Mr Howes joined Boulton & Paul to take charge of their construction and flew to Farnborough in the first of the 2,500-odd machines built in Norwich in 1914 and looped the loop on arrival. Howes & Son, engineers The First World War, which began with the cancellation of orders, and the speedy return home of employees who were abroad, soon provided opportunities, and Boulton & Paul became extremely busy during WWI fulfilling many contracts which included a Naval Hospital at Dover, hangars for the Royal Flying Corps, Naval and Military Installations, buildings in arsenals and dockyards, hospitals in France and warehouses in Mesopotamia, etc. In 1915, when they were asked to make aeroplanes. Stanley Howes (of Howes & Sons, Engineers - who had also wanted to help the war effort) agreed to undertake the erection and assembly of the aircraft. Eventually some 2,000 people were employed, and eventually laid out an airfield on the old Cavalry Drill Ground on Mousehold Heath north of the city. By October, 1915, the first aeroplane was completed. They made 550 F .E.s, 1,550 Sopwith Camels, and later Snipes, a modification of the Camel. In all 2,530 military aircraft were completed. In October 1914 the Royal Flying Corps took over the old cavalry drill ground on Mousehold Heath and laid out Norwich first airfield. This was used for training pilots, home defence and aircraft repair. In October 1915, the first aircraft to be built by Boulton and Paul an FE.2B fighter, made its maiden flight from the airfield. In 1939 The airport was at the current site, was first developed as RAF Horsham St Faith, and deactivated in 1963. The RAF left Horsham on 24th March 1967, and soon sold to Norwich City and Norfolk County Council, who later formed Norwich Airport Ltd., to develop Norwich International Airport, opening in 1988 and 1971 with charter flights. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003378
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