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Prestwick: A Century in Flight |
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Engineering Palace
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The Palace of Engineering, used at the Empire exhibition in Glasgow in 1938, was bought by Scottish Aviation and moved brick by brick from its Bellahouston site and rebuilt at Prestwick in only four months, becoming a maintenance hangar. This was to prove a significant investment in the post war years giving a manufacturing base for the company. During the war years around 1200 Spitfires were repaired at Prestwick and many of the American aircraft which arrived were adapted for RAF use inside the “palace” with over 5000 people employed directly by the plant in 1944.
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