Oxfordshire’s Leafield Technical Centre, deep in the heart of the UK’s world-renowned motorsport valley, is offering select automotive and technology organisations the opportunity to join its burgeoning research and development cluster base. The centre is owned by Menard Competition Technologies (MCT), itself one of the world’s leading advanced engine development and manufacturing companies.
As a thriving centre of excellence, Leafield boasts organisations of the calibre of Boise, Formtech, Cutting Edge Solutions and WSI, as well as MCT’s engine design and manufacturing facilities. Clients of MCT include the highly successful Superleague series, Norton motorcycles, Caparo and Bloodhound, the UK’s ground-breaking world land speed record attempt.
MCT has made up to 15 units available at the site, with spaces ranging from 1,000 up to in excess of 10,000 sq ft. Leafield is able to offer a fully serviced package for tenants, including 24 hour security, restaurant, manned reception area, facilities management as well as the use of a selection of meeting rooms and conference facilities.
Charlie Bamber, commercial director of MCT, noted: “This is a great opportunity for automotive and technology businesses to be situated at the heart of motorsport valley, surrounded by companies of a complementary nature.
“Leafield is ideal for organisations in the automotive and advance research and development arenas. There is a growing cluster of exciting, innovative teams at Leafield and it is our desire to expand that initiative and offer the benefits of being a part of such a dynamic collective to other firms.
“Inevitably, companies at Leafield gravitate towards working with each other – indeed, there is a formidable array of capabilities, expertise and solutions here. And we want others to be able to benefit from that, bringing further expertise and innovation. Yet despite the appeal of Leafield, rental prices are the same as other, more conventional industrial estates across Oxfordshire.”
The site was originally taken on by Marconi, on behalf of the Post Office, in the early part of the twentieth century and came to play a hugely influential role in British telecommunications during the two world wars. Subsequently it became a BT training facility, before being sold in 1993 to TWR and the Arrows F1 team. The facility was bought by MCT in 2003 and was home, briefly, to the Super Aguri F1 team.
For more information, please visit http://www.leafield-technical-centre.co.uk/
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Notes to editors:
Menard Competition Technologies Limited (MCT) is based at Leafield Technical Centre, near Witney, Oxfordshire and offers bespoke solutions to the motorsport, advanced automotive and aerospace sectors. Its United States facility is based in Indianapolis.
Expertise includes total engine design, development and manufacturing capabilities, transmission dynamometer, as well as total project management and track support.
MCT’s customers include leading teams and manufacturers from NASCAR, international sports car series and a number of European and North American single seater championships.
MCT has in excess of thirty year’s experience at the pinnacle of the world motorsport industry. Its management team boasts championship success across F1, sportscars, touring cars, IRL, CART and NASCAR.
