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History of
REIDsteel |
| Founded in 1919 by Colonel John
Reid, the firm is still family owned and occupies a 4 acre site at
Christchurch in Dorset.
 To
the right is an advert for REIDsteel posted in the French Journal "La
Science et La Vie" in 1935. It advertises agricultural buildings,
garages, car parks, churches, hangars and houses. Is this the world's
first advertisment for an aircraft hangar? Many of the structures here
we still build today.
We have always exported steel buildings worldwide
and continue to do so.
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The First Hangar |
![Loading Animation... - Louis Bleriot's Crash Landing in Northern France (may take 3 minutes on slow connections)]() When Louis Bleriot Crash landed in
Northern France in the early 1920's, he put his plane into a farmer's
steel cattle pen made by REIDsteel. "Hangar" is Northern French dialect
for cattle pen. Louis Bleriot phoned REIDsteel and ordered the first
three 'Hangars', which were built at Lamotte-Beuvron. We have
been making hangars and hangar doors ever since. |
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Louis Blériot -
French Aviation Pioneer
Cambrai, France
July 1, 1872 - August 2, 1936 |
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Louis
Bleriot achieved world acclaim when he became the first person to fly
across the English Channel in a powered aircraft on the 25th July 1909.
The plane was a self built monoplane with a 125 horsepower engine. The
flight took 40 minutes, from Les Barraques, France to Dover, England and
won him the London Daily Mail prize of £1000.
Following this he built the first
military aircraft for the Allied Nations during the first world war. In
1911 a Bleriot XI aircraft became the first bomber by dropping grenades
on Ottoman forces in Libya. Nearly 10,000 S.P.A.D. were built between
1914-1918. |
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