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My Brooklands / Vickers Aircraft Factory project
From 1964 to 1967 I worked in the small workshop in front of Brooklands Clubhouse.
This page shows my attempts at visualising parts of the site as it was in the 1960's
Please understand that all but the R& D area has now been developed beyond all recognition. The front of the clubhouse texture has been made from a B&W photo from the 1960s and shows the Grand Slam and Tallboy bombs designed by Dr. Barnes Wallis. My late father is to the right of the picture. The other textures are from modern photographs. Similarly the mock-up shop, textures from photographs. That building did create a problem because the ground slopes and the buildings lower right side appears to be underground. The third image shows the map layer visible and the building in place.
The KMZ file for this is Clubhouse.kmz If you have Google Earth on your computer then download the KMZ file, double click it on your computer and look!
Perhaps I should explain about the various files used by Sketch Up
I have only visited Brooklands once since I left in 1971 and I lost my bearings completely so my next project was to try to model the location of the main works. I have a document showing the internal layout of the building and it says that the total area was 703,363 ft^2 .
Having traced the drawing and done the required maths I think that the front of the factory, at the erection shop end was 138 metres wide. That seems a big big to me. The length front to back is 372 metres and the width at the "DO" end is 227 metres.
The kmz file for this model is main-works.KMZ . If you view it via Google Earth and look on it from vertically above you will see that I have added the layout picture to the roof of the factory.
I have also made a few "Push pins" of the area around the R&D this is a KML file which will run if you download it and double click it on your computer. The file name is Vickers-pins.klm. There is also a link to my work on Google Maps