Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 171,275 pages of information and 248,155 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Henderson Flying School

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1926 "... for her to continue as a pilot, and that as a result of this she had decided give flying. She has now accepted an offer become assistant to Colonel G. L. P. Henderson, who is starting a school at Brooklands. ..."[1]

1927 "The Woking Bench Saturday dismissed the appeal by Richard Goodhart Whalley, of Henderson Flying School, Brooklands, against the refusal of the Chief Constable of Surrey to allow him to carry firearms, and Whalley was ordered to pay ..."[2]

1928 The 'plane, belonging to the Henderson Flying School, came down on the Byfleet side of the aerodrome, which is enclosed by the Brooklands racing track.[3]

1928 Margaret Honor Wellby, who was killed while flying at Brooklands last Thursday. It was the first case in this country of a woman being killed while flying alone. Miss Welby was a pupil at the Henderson Flying School at Brooklands, [4]

1929 Colonel George Lockhart Henderson was principal of the Henderson Flying School at Brooklands until about a year ago when he moved over to Croydon where his firm became known as the Henderson Aviation Bureau.[5]

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Sources of Information

  1. Yorkshire Evening Post 19 November 1926
  2. Gloucester Journal 26 November 1927
  3. Daily Mirror 10 April 1928
  4. Sheffield Daily Telegraph 24 September 1928
  5. Sheffield Daily Telegraph 22 July 1930