McLaren Cars opening a factory in Sheffield

[alchresearch 214]

Wish it was the F1 side if the business. I would be applying like a shot. Great news for Sheffield. McLaren will build a beautiful looking,green and futuristic building. Shame that it will not be seen by most people as its at the old airport.

 

Wasn't there an F1 team operating out of Dinnington at one time?

 

<off to Google>

 

Yes:

 

http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/sport/virgin-f1-team-to-leave-dinnington-1-3554668

[rockdog 10]

The Original Manor motor racing team,latterly Manor F1,now defunct unfortunately.

But Manor motor racing still operating in sports cars,not sure if they are still Dinnington based.

[ez8004 10]

Wish it was the F1 side if the business. I would be applying like a shot. Great news for Sheffield. McLaren will build a beautiful looking,green and futuristic building. Shame that it will not be seen by most people as its at the old airport.

 

McLaren F1 will never ever leave Woking.

[trackrecords 10]

The Original Manor motor racing team,latterly Manor F1,now defunct unfortunately.

But Manor motor racing still operating in sports cars,not sure if they are still Dinnington based.

 

The Manor World Endurance Championship team are now based in Banbury Oxfordshire.

 

Under the new Chinese banner CEFC MANOR TRS RACING they are racing in the 2017 World Endurance Championship and the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans.

 

Oh, and just like Dinnington was in Rotherham so will be the McLaren facility.

 

---------- Post added 09-02-2017 at 07:23 ----------

 

Just so you are not disappointed.

 

Ohh, it wont be like the old days of full employment. Smelters, getting smoked and burned, passing out from the fumes, steelworks, belching out black smoke, smog every winter and black smoke turning the snow and the washing grey and the bronchitis killing more people in Brightside and Grimesthorpe than the rest of the country put together. And all those women at the factory gates waiting for the wage packets so they could put some food on the table for the five kids, before it got into the pub Landlord's till. No those days are long gone, when he came home from the pub to find his tea dried out or even burned in the black leaded range oven, the kids tucked up in bed with a hot brick at their feet and the missus sat by the fire waiting to throw it at him.

 

What a great piece of news. I wonder if the finance executive have had a clause written in that says if it doesn't make a profit within a certain time limit it will take on any debt. or something as equally daft as they did with the airport.

 

Also, in the offices at Brown Bailey steels (they pulled it down to build the Don Valley stadium, and now they have pulled that down) having to wipe the fine layer of grit off your desk that would collect on it overnight...

If you look how much a McLaren supercar cost - the cheapest around £145000 a profit is guaranteed!

[WalkleyIan 10]

http://www.thestar.co.uk/business/mclaren-gala-launch-and-signing-ceremony-1-8379029

 

Not much of the airport left in that shot now.

[Cyclone 10]

 

Oh, and just like Dinnington was in Rotherham so will be the McLaren facility.

 

Sheffield postal address, Rotherham borough, Worksop (Nottinghamshire) phone number.

It's a village in it's own right, neither in Sheffield nor Rotherham.

[classicfan 15]

Occupied by the University!

[sgtkate 10]

There's a fight over whether a new car factory is in Rotherham or Sheffield and you wonder why there are wars?

[Wazzock 10]

There's a fight over whether a new car factory is in Rotherham or Sheffield and you wonder why there are wars?

 

exactly, great news for the local area and all some berks can do is whinge about whether it's in one place or another

[alchresearch 214]

One article says its at the AMRC, but another says its on the airport , which is Sheffield Business Park isn't it?

[WalkleyIan 10]

One article says its at the AMRC, but another says its on the airport , which is Sheffield Business Park isn't it?

 

The first development of the AMRC (or AMP1) is in Rotherham. AMP2 , Factory 2050 / McLaren etc is in Sheffield .

 

They both need much better transport links including a link between the 2 sites and back to the University .

[10sheds 10]

Thank God Blunkett isn't in charge anymore he would have farted on it big time.