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[[Berkas:St_Wulfram,_Grantham.JPG|thumb|right|St Wulfram's church]]
During the famous [[Dambusters]] [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF) mission in May 1943, the [[RAF Bomber Command]]'s [[No. 5 Group RAF|No. 5 Group]] and the operation HQ, as [[Barnes Wallis]] nervously learnt the grim news, was in a building which later housed a county council education department, and was built by Richard Hornsby & Sons in 1865, and is now a private house. In 1944 (including [[D-Day]]), this was the headquarters for the USA's [[Ninth Air Force|9th]] (IX) Troop Carrier Command, being known as Grantham Lodge. [[RAF Spitalgate]] trained pilots in the war, and was not an operational base.
[[Aveling & Porter]] of [[Rochester, Kent|Rochester]], Kent, would join with [[Barford & Perkins]] of [[Peterborough]] to become [[Aveling-Barford]] Ltd in 1934, largely due to financial help from [[Ruston & Hornsby]]. The new company took a former site of Hornsbys, naming it the '[[Invicta (motto)|Invicta]]' works, which is from the motto on the coat of arms of [[Kent]], and translates as 'unconquered'. It did not fare well with the sinking market for large [[Dump truck|dumper truck]]s and road rollers, and now as [[Barford Construction Equipment]], it makes dumpers for construction sites, being owned by Wordsworth Holdings PLC(USA). A trailer company, [http://www.fruehauf.co.uk Crane-Fruehauf], has moved into part of the factory, from its former home of [[Dereham]], when it went into [[receivership]] in early 2005.
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