Road Research Laboratory

place and laboratory

Aged unknown

Commemorated on 1 plaque

Tests conducted by the Road Research Laboratory against model dams built on this site during 1940-42 assisted Barnes Wallis in his development of the bouncing bomb (Upkeep), used by No. 617 Squadron Royal Air Force to breach the Ruhr Dams 16/17 May 1943

Moor Lane, Harmondsworth, London, United Kingdom where it sited