Underground Ww2 Aero Engine Factory Set Up By Rover

[Dr H]

Amazing

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3053771/Wartime-scientist-91-revisits-secret-underground-factory-helped-build-Lancaster-engines-safe-Hitler-s-bombs.html

[DanP]

Yeah, but BMW who built aero engines during WWII too are still building cars lol!! 

[Martin R]

There are / were also loads on tunnels all under the Longbridge factory (  i have been in them ) They were built so they could transport stuff below ground during the war. They went from under the CABs to the East works ( power train ) It was a long way between the two.

 

They over the years got filled with old cars and engines etc. In the CAB building they had a couple of large buried petrol tanks to fill the new cars as they left the assembly lines. One sprung a leak and got in the tunnels.

 

Needless to say it caught fire. The heat cracked the tiles on the office floors. It was impossible for the fire brigade to get in the tunnels to put it out. they had to seal them and let it burn out. A lot of history went with it. I expect a lot of the tunnels are still intact.

[Lunner]

There are / were also loads on tunnels all under the Longbridge factory (  i have been in them ) They were built so they could transport stuff below ground during the war. They went from under the CABs to the East works ( power train ) It was a long way between the two.

 

They over the years got filled with old cars and engines etc. In the CAB building they had a couple of large buried petrol tanks to fill the new cars as they left the assembly lines. One sprung a leak and got in the tunnels.

 

Needless to say it caught fire. The heat cracked the tiles on the office floors. It was impossible for the fire brigade to get in the tunnels to put it out. they had to seal them and let it burn out. A lot of history went with it. I expect a lot of the tunnels are still intact.

I was in them a couple of years ago....i was a site manager on the site when the Sainsburys etc was built there, and a couple of us went for a walk through them one evening.

 

Sod all left in them now, a handful of old car parts.

 

On the other side of the A38 to the new development there was an underground hospital etc, but i found out about it after it had been demolished

Just a couple of photos....low light and camera phones are rubbish though