Hunting Aerosurveys

The firm incorporated Aerofilms Ltd and the Aircraft Operating Company.

The company had contracts for work surveying for tin mining in Nigeria; oil in Arabia, Venezuela and Colombia; timber in Ontario; and mapping in Australia & Hong Kong (in 1963).

[1] Between 1957 and 1964, Hunting operated a specially converted Auster Autocar for smaller scale aerial survey work.

The new company was able to provide state-of-the-art serial survey work and associated mapping, with the oblique aerial photography that Aerofilms had been undertaking since 1919.

In 1997 the company was sold to Simmons Mapping in Somerset, a move that ultimately led to the complete closure of the oblique photography business (and its long-established photo library) in 2006, with the vertical / survey side of the business passing to the Somerset operation.