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at Grand Central Airport, Timm then leased some factory buildings at the Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, California, called the Woodley plant, in the fall of 1938.
While test work was in progress on the T-840 transport Timm started looking into the primary training plane market and started to experiment with plastic bonded plywood for plane construction.  These tests were very encouraging and this [[strikethrough]] development later [[/strikethrough]] method became known as the Timm Aeromold Process.  As a result Timm decided to build a low-wing monoplane 2-place trainer using this type of construction. Called the PT-160 it had a span of 36 feet, an overall length of 24 feet and used a 160 [[strikethrough]] H.P. [[/strikethrough]] hp Kinner radial engine.
A prototype, primarily intended for civilian training, was flown to Washington, D. C. and Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio for demonstrations before Government officials.  They were pleased with the plane but wanted more power, so Timm made a few changes and installed a 200 [[strikethrough]] H.P. [[strikethrough]] hp 7-cylinder Continental Radial engine. This greatly improved the performance and the plane, designated the PT-220, was then demonstrated to the Navy Department who awarded Timm a contract for 750 planes.  This Navy version became the N2T-1. 
Development work on the T-840 transport plane was suspended and more factory space was needed so Timm bought 30 acres of land adjoining the airport and built a new factory in 1941.  The new building was used for the production of the Navy N2T-1 trainers and the Woodley plant was retained for sub-contract and other work.
About this time the Pearl Harbor bombing [[strikethrough]] fiasco [[/strikethrough]] took place and Timm's contracts were increased.  He thought his firm was working at full capacity when the Government asked him to build 375 troop-carrying gliders.  The glider wanted was as large as a Douglas DC-2 and more space was required for their construction, so an old three story factory building in Los Angeles was leased and prepared for this project.  He hired additional personnel of all kinds and sub-contracted as much of the work as possible to various manufacturers in the Los Angeles area in order to handle the job. About the time the project was well under way the contract was increased to 975 gliders.  However, this number was never completed due to a