de Havilland Construction Hangar
By Michael Browne
Hangar at either Stag Lane or Hatfield
I attach a photo rediscovered when clearing my father’s home in 2005. It is an obvious aircraft construction hanger but was it at Hatfield or the earlier Stag Lane factory. I remember my father saying they were building “Cubs” and I think one of the men in white aprons could be my father (Thomas (Tom) Browne). He started at Stag Lane in 1935 just 3 days after being interviewed for the job.. He moved to the Hatfield factory in 1936 and worked there until retirement in 1977.
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My father, Fredrick George Smith, was one of only two people in the country who could do a life size layout of the planes at De HAVILLAND, so that the people making the parts could check the components were the correct size . These life size layouts were on the hanger floor made from tape. My dads nickname was Smudger Smith and he worked for Dehaviland until he died in a cycling accident in 1975