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This story appears courtesy of and with thanks to The Liverpool Diocesan Care and Repair Association and James Taylor

Well the Germans designed a bomb which was steered by a rudder and if the wind blew it off course it was off course! This thing had sufficient fuel in it to carry it just from Northern France, the area which was conquered by the Germans. They could launch one of these and it would land anywhere in London or around that area. They were called ‘buzz bombs’. We knew of the existence of this thing and when it was discovered how primitive it was, we designed one in Farnborough with an Automatic Pilot so it could be steered exactly where it was supposed to go. As the war developed, the War Council decided they wouldn’t use it because, launching from say Dover to parish or any of the big industrial cities in France was a great deal further than launching from Calais to London. If one of our bombs had dropped into German hands it would be a damn sight more useful to them than the buzz bomb was to us.

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