Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory
1940 - Operational
Overview
Built for the Air Ministry to mass produce the Spitfire, delivering over 11,000 of them, more than any other plant. Today the same site is a Jaguar Land Rover factory, aluminum car bodies where fighter wings once rolled out.
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