Bristol Aeroplane Company (Housing) Ltd, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset - Permanent Aluminium School Buildings advert, 1949
An interesting bit of post-war diversification this - the Bristol Aircraft Company who had during WW2 been at full tilt building aircraft would have been, in common with other defence industries, looking for ways to built up ancillary trades using wartime technology and capacity. At the same time, in post-war austerity, there was a huge backlog of capital investment in the UK's infrastructure needing rapid and cheap building at a time of steel shortages. BAC offered a version of 'pre-fab' buildings for schools and a few were constructed. I'm uncertain if any survive. Bristol Aeroplanes were part of quite an industrial empire that had grown out of the original Bristol Tramways Comapny, moving to construction of road vehicles (cars but notably buses) and then into aircarft construction with the Filton plant becoming a major hub of construction in the UK.
Bristol Aeroplane Company (Housing) Ltd, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset - Permanent Aluminium School Buildings advert, 1949
An interesting bit of post-war diversification this - the Bristol Aircraft Company who had during WW2 been at full tilt building aircraft would have been, in common with other defence industries, looking for ways to built up ancillary trades using wartime technology and capacity. At the same time, in post-war austerity, there was a huge backlog of capital investment in the UK's infrastructure needing rapid and cheap building at a time of steel shortages. BAC offered a version of 'pre-fab' buildings for schools and a few were constructed. I'm uncertain if any survive. Bristol Aeroplanes were part of quite an industrial empire that had grown out of the original Bristol Tramways Comapny, moving to construction of road vehicles (cars but notably buses) and then into aircarft construction with the Filton plant becoming a major hub of construction in the UK.