BAE Chadderton

[1] Over 3,000 Lancasters were produced on the site, which were moved to Woodford Aerodrome for assembly.

[2] It also produced the Bristol Blenheim under licence; the Avro Manchester; the York; the Lincoln; the Tudor; the Shackleton; and the Vulcan.

[1] A substantial amount of Avro's documentation (including the original drawings of the Lancaster, Vulcan and Nimrod) were lost in a fire at Chadderton in 1959.

[1] The main Greengate site has since become home to NOV Process & Flow Technologies UK Limited, which manufactures the Mono range of industrial pumps as a division of Houston-based multinational NOV Inc. (formerly National Oilwell Varco).

Part of the former BAE site alongside is now a purpose-built depot for DPDgroup parcel couriers.