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File relating to Air Ministry's proposed three new "shadow factories" in the Coventry area, to be controlled by Rootes Securities Ltd (shadow factory location: Ryton-on-Dunsmore parish), Standard Motor Car Company (Banner Lane), and Daimler Co Ltd Aero Engines (Browns Lane, Allesley) respectively, and resulting problems, particularly re expected large Coventry armament labour influx, etc
CCA/3/1/7601
1939 - 1940
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Including plan (Allesley Hall, Browns Lane, Staircase Lane, River Sherbourne); question of Corporation's Coventry "green belt" Town Planning policy conflicting with the Air Ministry's rural land acquisition for the Coventry shadow factories; Corporation lobbying of central government, and synopsis of statement made to Coventry constituency MP's; various press cuttings; Policy Advisory Committee memorandum, etc
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