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The firm incorporated
Aerofilms Ltd and the Aircraft Operating Company. In 1947 it
was using three types of aircraft: Austers, a Percival Proctor
and a de Havilland Dragon Rapide and planned to acquire one or
more Percival Mergansers. 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). Between 1957 and 1964, Hunting operated
a specially converted Auster Autocar for smaller scale aerial
survey work. In 1960 the firm was merged with Hunting Geophysics
Ltd to form Hunting Surveys Ltd. Threatened with closure in the
mid-1980s, it was merged with sister company Hunting Aerofilms
Ltd to become simply Aerofilms Ltd in 1987. 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. |
