The Engine Test House is one of the buildings created in the first raft of developments at RAF Bicester, and was completed in 1926.
Inside, the building remains split into three sections and each had the same purpose of testing the aircraft engines of the time. Pillars and partial brick partitions at each wall formed the figurative barrier, and the cells had their own double door entry.
The water-cooled Rolls-Royce Condor engine, a V12, that powered the fleet of Hawker Horsley planes of the 100 Squadron would have been among the earliest engines filling Building 102, and later the Mercurys of the Blenheim.
Now two storeys, with a mezzanine packed with the finest materials used by Harry Fraser Vehicle Upholstery installed in 2021, the Engine Test House was initially restored in 2014. Then, Ewen Getley and the fledgling Kingsbury Racing Shop moved in before Banbury and Bicester College and Activate Learning brought the UK's first accredited historic vehicle restoration apprenticeship scheme to Bicester Heritage in 2016.
Now the home of Harry Fraser, his fourth building at Bicester Heritage
