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Plate 19: Engine Stripping Shop (47) Plate 20: Engineer’s Shop (51) 40
4. 4.13 4. 13 Engineer’s Engineer’s Shop Shop (Station (Station Maintenance Maintenance Engineer’s Engineer’s Workshop) Workshop Workshop ) (51) (51) Located between Unicorn Road and Implacable Road, this is a large WWI brick coupled shed, each half having 24ft span steel trusses supported by brick buttresses. Built in 11-bays with trusses supplied by the Frodingham Iron and Steel Co. This is thought to be another building to the designs of Lieutenant JGN Clifts, Royal Engineers. � NGR: SU 5584 0127 (51) 4.1 4.14 4.1 Air Air-Raid Air Raid Shelter Shelter (60 (60 & & 94) 94) Only two out of 36 air-raid shelters survive on the main site, both are positioned close to Hermes Road. They were built with permanent brick walls (bricks laid in English Bond) supporting a flat reinforced concrete slab roof. � Air-Raid Shelter NGR: SU 5589 0124 (69) � Air-Raid Shelter NGR: SU 5593 0127 (94) 4.1 4.15 4.1 Hinaidi Hinaidi Aeroplane Aeroplane Aeroplane Repair Repair Section Section Shed Shed Shed (Esmonde (Esmonde Hangar) Hangar) (67) The Hinaidi shed was a semi-permanent shed designed by the Air Ministry Directorate of Works in 1927 as a quick and cheap hangar mainly designed for stations overseas. To save time and keep uniformity of parts, the new design was generally based on Admiralty type ‘F’ seaplanes sheds that already existed on many former WWI RNAS seaplane bases. The basic structure of the old sheds was redesigned in the form of an end-opening hangar. The hangar at Lee however is based on the similar but much smaller type ‘G’ seaplane shed. It is located adjacent to Implacable Road. There is a large workshop annexe built against a side elevation. All three steel doors at either end opened out along door gantries in one direction only. On the larger Hinaidi shed, doors were in four leaves and could open out either side on two door gantries supported by ‘A’-frame trestles. The Lee example has walls of reinforced concrete with single-latticed stanchions supporting 80ft span roof trusses spaced at 12ft-6in centres. In 1941, a section inside the shed was partitioned off to become a dope shop. Doors survive at either end but only one Hinaidi type door gantry is extant. � NGR: SU 5582 0134 (67) 4.1 4.16 4.1 Type Type ‘A’ Aeroplane Shed 19a/24 (Swann Hangar) Hangar) (68) Type ‘A’ aeroplane sheds were the first permanent end-opening hangars of the inter-war period for RAF stations at home and abroad. Designed in 1924, they became the largest aeroplane shed until a new design - the type ‘C’ - replaced them during the RAF Expansion Period. A total of 34 were built in the United Kingdom which were located at 17 sites. They were generally built between 1925 and 1940. They were designed to be built in pairs and in 1931, two hangars of this type were planned for Lee-on-Solent but only one was actually built. The building is located to the north of Esmode Hangar (67). Main stanchions are positioned at 38ft-4in centres and intermediate stanchions support steelframed roof girders with cantilever gable trusses (ridge and valley) running longitudinally. Wall infilling consisted of 14in reinforced concrete up to a height of 12ft, then 9in thick reinforced concrete for another eight feet. Natural light into the shed was achieved through rows of patent ‘Mellows’ wired glazing panels in the walls and roof. Above the wall glazing panels were horizontal RSJs which were bolted to the stanchions and support gable end brickwork. At either end of the shed steel doors in four leaves opened full width along door guides supported by braced trestles. 41
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