After designing a house for Scott's parents at Stoke Poges, the partnership were given the chance to create offices for Aiton's father's manufacturing site in Derby.

[12] Aiton's father gave the architects free rein[13] to come up with a cutting-edge innovative design which would reflect and promote the advanced technology behind the factory's products which included pipework for warships and power stations.

[14] The dominant steel and glass were used with colour in a "De Stijl" scheme combining red floors and jade green interior walls with blue brick, grey window frames and stucco, and white cement.

[8] Historic England call this "a very fine and also extremely early example of the Modern or International style of architecture" and "one of the earliest industrial buildings to be designed by a partnership of women architects".

[8] Their work was featured in the press, books, trade journals, a RIBA exhibition and beyond, and yet they have not been included in mainstream histories of modernist design.

[8][18] In her twenties and thirties Aiton was called a "girl architect" in the press and was asked whether women were best suited to designing domestic buildings.

[24] Aiton's uncle was the Dutch oil explorer Adriaan Stoop,[2][25] and she was related to industrialist Dolf Kessler who in 1929 commissioned a home from innovative architect Hendrik Wouda.