 During World War II the Studio's buildings were requisitioned and used as a storage facility for the war-effort by the Government, and the Vickers-Armstrong Aircraft Company built two new aircraft construction hangars on the site, to reinforce and disperse its production capacity after damage by enemy bombing attacks at its factory site at Brooklands, Weybridge on 4 September 1940.Archibald Nettlefold died in 1944, and when the Studio reopened post-war it was sold in 1947 to Ernest G. Roy.The declining post-war British film industry meant that only a few domestic films were made there in the late 1940s/1950's on modest budgets.