It was also a unique form of tenure combining features of a tenant co-operative and a limited dividend company.
The idea of co-operative housing can be traced back to early 19th Century figures, notably Robert Owen and Charles Fourier.
The connections between the garden city and co-operative movements go back to the 1870s and 1880s when Ebenezer Howard was moving in radical circles which included utopian community builders and land reformers.
Neville introduced Howard to a group of wealthy and influential people who had already invested in the Ealing project.
Two years later the link was sealed when Vivian brought in GCA architects Unwin and Parker to work on the Ealing project.