R. A. Short Aviation
R. A. Short Aviation of Godstone Rd., Whyteleafe, Surrey.
1956 Bought 73 Mosquito aircraft.[1]
Robert Short - Several stories in the papers of 'unusual' dealings of the company and its owner. 'FIVE angry workmen are trying to trace a war-surplus dealer. They claim he has disappeared owing them wages and a £2O bonus each. They seek tall, red-bearded Robert Henderson, 25, of Burgh Heath, Surrey, who drove off in a £1,400 pale blue Jaguar. He has been touring airfields supervising the dismantling of surplus warplanes as sub-contractor for R. A. Short Aviation, of Whyteleafe, Surrey. Recently, at Paisley, Scotland, he engaged five men to strip down six Mosquito aircraft at the Royal Naval Air Station at near-by Abbotsinch....Mr. Robert Short, boss of Short Aviation, said: "I have heard about Henderson's activities. He has been dismissed."'[2]