With reference to the story on Hendon RAF Museum: (Fitting end for fighting Dakota') I would like to make the following corrective comments.
The structure (often misleadingly described as the Grahame-White factory) was the eastern end of a First World War aircraft factory frontage that extended in an unbroken line to a mirror image of that structure behind the Grade II-listed officers mess which is now refurbished as the Middlesex University's Writtle Hall.
The Grade II-listed building that formed the factory spine with the airfield watch office/control tower remains abandoned to the effects of weather and vandalism.
Only the steel elements (for example, doors and roof supports) will be relocated; the brick southern and eastern elevations will be replaced. So when does relocation of a Grade II-listed building become replication?
The Dakota itself was not built by the US Air Force but by the Douglas Corporation in the USA, initially as a pre-Second World War civil airliner.
Dave Clucas
Salcome Gardens, Mill Hill
July 16, 2002 16:00
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