Two A.35s were sold to an industrial company, and were among the earliest aircraft purchased as corporate transports.
In 1949, the fort was leased to the Bata Shoe Company for storage and was purchased from the government in 1962 by Thurrock Council.
The Bata company developed not only a factory, but also a town for workers, built in the modernist style, and a sizeable estate of listed buildings remains.
It was intended to serve workers at the Bata Shoe company and the company paid for the construction of the platforms.
His father, also John Tusa (Jan Tůša), was managing director of British Bata Shoes, established by the Czechoslovak shoe company, which, following its international pattern, also created a pioneering work-living community around its factory in East Tilbury, Essex.
He graduated from a chemistry high school and worked for the Baťa company.
The new part of Pravenec was founded in the 1940´s shortly after the Baťa woodworking factory was established.
Thomas G. Bata (born 1948), Tomáš's grandson who currently leads Bata Shoes
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In the former Czechoslovakia, all industrial cities founded or reconstructed by the Bata Shoes company (Zlín, Svit, Partizánske) were at least influenced by the conception of the Garden city.