Transfer from Hayes (UB3 – UB4) to Gatwick Airport
Transfer from Hayes (UB3 – UB4) to Gatwick Airport
The Central Research Laboratories in Hayes represent the place where Isaac Shoenberg invented the 405 – line television system, an all-electronic device. This happened in 1935. BBC used the system from 1936 until 1985. The laboratories have also served as research centre for the stereo gramophone and binaural sound recording led by Alan Blumlein. He demonstrated the stereo sound on movies by shooting Walking and Talking and Trains at Hayes Station. These movies can still be found at the EMI archive. Hayes is also the place where the H2S and 60 MHz radar systems have been invented.
Throughout the World War I, the EMI factories were used to produce aircraft. Fairey worked here for a while, until he opened Fairey Aviation, his own company. He purchased grounds in Heathrow so as to have a place where to test the aircraft. It was called Great West Aerodrome. When the World War II finished, the Ministry of Aviation bought the aerodrome and converted it into what was to become one of the largest and busiest airports in the world: Heathrow Airport.