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Initially under the personal direction of the Minister, for a time it operated from his private home. The initial Chief Executive of the Ministry was Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman, who left after frustrations with Lord Beaverbrook's working methods but returned in October 1942 and served until 1945. [4]
Lord Beaverbrook, a World War II Minister of Aircraft Production, gave a tribute at the closing ceremony disbanding the ATA at White Waltham on 30 November 1945: [3] Without the ATA the days and nights of the Battle of Britain would have been conducted under conditions quite different from the actual events. They carried out the delivery of ...
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook PC, ONB (25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964), was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century.
In 2004, Lord Beaverbrook was appointed Honorary Air Commodore of No. 4626 Squadron in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF). In 2009 he was promoted to be Honorary Inspector General, RAuxAF, in the rank of air vice-marshal. [2] In May 2016 he was appointed to the new post of Commandant General RAuxAF, with attendance at the Air Force Board ...
The Minister of Production was a British government position that existed during the Second World War, heading the Ministry of Production.. Initially the post was called "Minister of War Production" when it was created in February 1942, but the first Minister, Lord Beaverbrook, resigned after only two weeks in office.
The first version of the vehicle was built in 1940 by Standard Motor Company at the instigation of Lord Beaverbrook, then Minister of Aircraft Production (hence the name Beaverette). It was based on commercial car chassis, on which a simple riveted armoured hull was mounted. The 11mm of steel was backed by 3 inch thick oak planks. [1]
The airfield was set up in 1928 when the de Havilland family bought 196 acres (0.79 km 2) of grassland to house the de Havilland Flying School. In 1938 the airfield was taken over by the government, and during the Second World War was the home of the Air Transport Auxiliary between its formation in early 1940 and disbandment during September 1945. [2]
Lord Beaverbrook. The campaign secured the support of Lord Beaverbrook, minister for aircraft production, when a supporter, Richard Cotton the American managing director of the British Rola company, wrote to the British peer on August 27 falsely claiming "there will shortly be a considerable quantity of arms and ammunition" at the New York docks ready for shipment to the UK; the campaign for ...