Great names are associated with that growth - Sefton Brancker Sholto Douglas

Great names are associated with that growth - Sefton Brancker, Sholto Douglas, George Cribbett, George Edwards And to these must be added Peter Masefield. The 20th century saw the birth, and amazing growth, of civil aviation. Peter Gordon Masefield, civil servant, administrator and aviation historian: born Trentham, Staffordshire 19 March 1914; design staff, Fairey Aviation Co 1935-37; staff, The Aeroplane 1937-43, Technical Editor 1939-43; Air Correspondent, The Sunday Times 1940-43; Editor, The Aeroplane Spotter 1941-43; Personal Adviser to the Lord Privy Seal (Lord Beaverbrook) and Secretary of War Cabinet Committee on Post-War Civil Air Transport 1943-45; British Civil Air Attach?Washington 1945-46; Director-General of Long Term Planning and Projects, Ministry of Civil Aviation 1946-48; chief executive, British European Airways 1949-55; managing director, Bristol Aircraft 1956-60; managing director, Beagle Aircraft 1960-67, chairman 1968-70; Chairman, British Airports Authority 1965-71; Kt 1972; Chairman and Chief Executive, London Transport 1980-82; President, Brooklands Museum Trust 1993-2006, Chairman 1987-93; married 1936 Patricia Rooney (three sons, one daughter); died Laughton, East Sussex 14 February 2006. "We're anti-establishment, which is a weird situation for the Conservatives to be in," he says. "I think CF can work with Cameron to make the point that you can be young, British, hold a flag and not be seen as a right-wing nutter.". We should sit on the side and see what goes on." And even: "The world ended when Labour came to power in 1997."Vaughan is a little more optimistic.

Although he acknowledges that the Conservatives still have a mountain to climb, he believes they have a new appeal for young people, even without the Cameron effect. James Cottis, 24, an Essex graduate and an area CF chairman covering 17 constituencies, espouses some distinctly hardline views. "The death penalty should be reintroduced for serious offenders like paedophiles," he says, and "If Labour are in power for much longer, Britain will be completely wiped off the map We'll be part of Europe, and we should not be in Europe. Conservative values also fit with Muslim values, especially on the importance of family and social cohesion."Not all the young people at Essex are as centrist as Cameron might like them to be.

I don't want someone else dictating to me how I should be leading my life. "But every stereotype says I shouldn't be at uni doing a law degree either. Being a Tory means you believe you should be able to make your own decisions. He is a British-Iranian Muslim from a single-parent family in inner London "Every stereotype says I shouldn't be a Tory," he agrees.