Hullavington airfield
Leon Jabachjabicz,
I realise this, the global manufacturing sector being one I operate in, but the bulk of Triumph machines ARE made in Hinckley wheras ALL of Dyson machines are made in Malaysia.
When Dyson **** his Malmesbury manufacturing plant and shipped production abroad he cited both labour cost and the fact that the majority of their component suppliers were based locally.
Thankfully this is a trend that is now in rapid reverse, on shoring and reshoring, i.e bringing manufacturing back from over seas to UK plants, is now a significant factor for companies both large and small.
I realise this, the global manufacturing sector being one I operate in, but the bulk of Triumph machines ARE made in Hinckley wheras ALL of Dyson machines are made in Malaysia.
When Dyson **** his Malmesbury manufacturing plant and shipped production abroad he cited both labour cost and the fact that the majority of their component suppliers were based locally.
Thankfully this is a trend that is now in rapid reverse, on shoring and reshoring, i.e bringing manufacturing back from over seas to UK plants, is now a significant factor for companies both large and small.
Proone
Not so, old fruit...
The Hinckley factory's work is mostly design and assembly of motorcycle parts made in Thailand. Also, the new super factory in India is expected to manufacture 10 TIMES the production of Hinckley/Thailand put together. 
I think there is an old boy that puts the gold-leaf stripe on Bonneville tanks by hand at the Hinckley factory.
Anyway, I agree 'reshoring' is good and who knows, this might be what is planned for Hullavington? Maybe the Govt are saving this good news for a 'rainy day'?
LJ
PS. My Hinckley designed Bonnie that was built in Thailand was still of far better quality than my Meriden produced oli-leaking Bonnie from 1972!!!
Not so, old fruit...
Triumph may be a stolidly British brand, but it’s a global company. While Hinkley remains the base of operations, Triumph has constructed three manufacturing facilities in the Chonburi Province of Thailand. The first factory produces chassis components like frames and swingarms, as well as fuel tanks. The second fabricates plastic parts and bodywork via injection molds. It also houses an assembly line, with Triumph moving maturing model lines overseas for final assembly (currently its Thai factory assembles the 865 Twins, as well as the 675 and 1050 Triples). The third Thai facility casts most of the engine parts, including cases, cylinder heads, crankshafts and camshafts. All told more than 50% of a completed motorcycle is fabricated completely in house.
I think there is an old boy that puts the gold-leaf stripe on Bonneville tanks by hand at the Hinckley factory.
Anyway, I agree 'reshoring' is good and who knows, this might be what is planned for Hullavington? Maybe the Govt are saving this good news for a 'rainy day'?
LJ
PS. My Hinckley designed Bonnie that was built in Thailand was still of far better quality than my Meriden produced oli-leaking Bonnie from 1972!!!
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Hullavington
It seems we have lost the thread again. I recently came across this statement on an Expansion Airfields site:
"What is interesting about Hullavington is that the land was donated by the Duke of Beaufort (IIRC) whose only stipulation was that the architecture should be in keeping with the locality. The upshot of this being that all buildings viewable from outside the camp (including part of the OMQs) were built/clad in local stone, whereas buildings further inside the camp (invisible to the public) were red brick. I believe this was the only Station done like this."
The Duke of Beaufort is not listed as one of the former owners according to the Crichel Down notice and the Badminton Estate is not able to find any records that it ever owned the land.
Does anyone out there know anything about this?
"What is interesting about Hullavington is that the land was donated by the Duke of Beaufort (IIRC) whose only stipulation was that the architecture should be in keeping with the locality. The upshot of this being that all buildings viewable from outside the camp (including part of the OMQs) were built/clad in local stone, whereas buildings further inside the camp (invisible to the public) were red brick. I believe this was the only Station done like this."
The Duke of Beaufort is not listed as one of the former owners according to the Crichel Down notice and the Badminton Estate is not able to find any records that it ever owned the land.
Does anyone out there know anything about this?
So, here is my theory on the Dyson rumour...
Seeing as Dyson has bought out the high-tech battery company Satki3 with a £10M investment last year: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...y-company.html
And that he has announced an interest in electric cars: Dyson might be building electric car, joining Apple and Google in looking to make vehicles of the future | News | Lifestyle | The Independent
As I quoted before, James Gray MP stated:
James Gray MP plays down fears over houses in Hullavington (From This Is Wiltshire)
Now seeing as the Chancellor has been crowing about autonomous electric vehicles recently in the press: George Osborne to open UK roads to driverless cars by 2020 | News | Lifestyle | The Independent
And also his budget last year boosted this: Budget 2015: Research into driverless cars boosted - FT.com
Then here is my theory. Dyson will be the lead in building autonomous electric cars in the UK, using his new battery technology, and building them at Hullavington. If I'm right I'll claim my £5 and if I'm wrong I'll keep wearing my tin foil hat...
...if correct then its not great news for the 'Northern Powerhouse', though. Maybe they should rename it the 'Western Powerhouse' with the recent investment at St Athan for the Aston Martin DB-X factory!! Maybe, HS2 should be routed westwards instead!
LJ
Seeing as Dyson has bought out the high-tech battery company Satki3 with a £10M investment last year: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...y-company.html
And that he has announced an interest in electric cars: Dyson might be building electric car, joining Apple and Google in looking to make vehicles of the future | News | Lifestyle | The Independent
As I quoted before, James Gray MP stated:
“There’s a business interested in the site and it would be an environmentally sensitive one that local people would welcome.”
Mr Gray has refused to give any further details on which business he believes is interested. Local speculation is that washing machine and vacuum manufacturer Dyson, which moved to Malmesbury from Chippenham some years ago but has now outgrown its factory there, would be keen to stay in the area and expand.
Mr Gray has refused to give any further details on which business he believes is interested. Local speculation is that washing machine and vacuum manufacturer Dyson, which moved to Malmesbury from Chippenham some years ago but has now outgrown its factory there, would be keen to stay in the area and expand.
Now seeing as the Chancellor has been crowing about autonomous electric vehicles recently in the press: George Osborne to open UK roads to driverless cars by 2020 | News | Lifestyle | The Independent
And also his budget last year boosted this: Budget 2015: Research into driverless cars boosted - FT.com
Then here is my theory. Dyson will be the lead in building autonomous electric cars in the UK, using his new battery technology, and building them at Hullavington. If I'm right I'll claim my £5 and if I'm wrong I'll keep wearing my tin foil hat...
...if correct then its not great news for the 'Northern Powerhouse', though. Maybe they should rename it the 'Western Powerhouse' with the recent investment at St Athan for the Aston Martin DB-X factory!! Maybe, HS2 should be routed westwards instead!
LJ
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Part of airfield for sale.
Advert in the "Wiltshire Times" for Friday 4th by "Bilfinger/GVA/DIO for a parcel of land to the NW adjacent to the MQ's for sale(Freehold) including the two 'E' type hangars to the NE and the two to the NW.(89acres in total) Had a look on their website but can't find anything about it. The parcel of land for sale includes part of the airfield but is not encroaching on the ruway. I have tried to mark the boundary on GE with a link to it but I'm afraid I failed miserably, sorry!
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So now we know
BBC iPlayer - Points West - Evening News: 28/02/2017
We're outgrowing Malmesbury headquarters, says Sir James
1 hr ago / Bruno Clements, Social media and web editor Wilts Gazette and Herald
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BILLIONAIRE inventor Sir James Dyson has announced plans for a new multi-million-pound research and development centre in Wiltshire as he seeks to expand his company's footprint tenfold in the UK.
Vacuum and electronics giant Dyson is to begin work on a second technology campus on a 517-acre former Ministry of Defence (MoD) site at Hullavington, near its Malmesbury headquarters.
It comes as the group is looking to double its workforce to around 7,000 in the next five or six years and will create a global hub for research and development
Sir James said: "After 25 years of UK growth, and continuing expansion globally, we are fast outgrowing our Malmesbury campus.
"The 517-acre Hullavington Campus is an investment for our future, creating a global hub for our research and development endeavours.
"It will enable us to continue creating world-class products and jobs right here in the Cotswolds."
Sir James, who spoke out in favour of Brexit, recently announced plans to launch the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology in September - a new university based at Malmesbury - and two weeks ago opened a new technology centre in Singapore.
Prime Minister Theresa May hailed Dyson's new campus plans as a "vote of confidence in our modern industrial strategy and our determination to cement the UK's position as a world leader in hi-tech engineering".
She added: "Dyson's exporting strength and commitment to creating jobs in Britain is a real success story that demonstrates the opportunity that our plan to create a truly global Britain can present."
Dyson already has two sites in the UK - its Malmesbury HQ and a Bristol software hub.
It is also investing £250 million on expanding its 56-acre HQ.
Dyson has not disclosed how much will be invested in the Hullavington site, but the group has pledged to pump £2.5bn into future technologies and currently spends £7m a week on research and development.
It is set to begin site preparations for the first phase of the Hullavington development next week, with restoration of the Second World War hangars beginning in May.
The site was originally an RAF flying training station, opened in 1937, but has been largely inactive since the mid-1990s and was one of 12 put up for sale by the MoD in January 2016.
We're outgrowing Malmesbury headquarters, says Sir James
1 hr ago / Bruno Clements, Social media and web editor Wilts Gazette and Herald
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BILLIONAIRE inventor Sir James Dyson has announced plans for a new multi-million-pound research and development centre in Wiltshire as he seeks to expand his company's footprint tenfold in the UK.
Vacuum and electronics giant Dyson is to begin work on a second technology campus on a 517-acre former Ministry of Defence (MoD) site at Hullavington, near its Malmesbury headquarters.
It comes as the group is looking to double its workforce to around 7,000 in the next five or six years and will create a global hub for research and development
Sir James said: "After 25 years of UK growth, and continuing expansion globally, we are fast outgrowing our Malmesbury campus.
"The 517-acre Hullavington Campus is an investment for our future, creating a global hub for our research and development endeavours.
"It will enable us to continue creating world-class products and jobs right here in the Cotswolds."
Sir James, who spoke out in favour of Brexit, recently announced plans to launch the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology in September - a new university based at Malmesbury - and two weeks ago opened a new technology centre in Singapore.
Prime Minister Theresa May hailed Dyson's new campus plans as a "vote of confidence in our modern industrial strategy and our determination to cement the UK's position as a world leader in hi-tech engineering".
She added: "Dyson's exporting strength and commitment to creating jobs in Britain is a real success story that demonstrates the opportunity that our plan to create a truly global Britain can present."
Dyson already has two sites in the UK - its Malmesbury HQ and a Bristol software hub.
It is also investing £250 million on expanding its 56-acre HQ.
Dyson has not disclosed how much will be invested in the Hullavington site, but the group has pledged to pump £2.5bn into future technologies and currently spends £7m a week on research and development.
It is set to begin site preparations for the first phase of the Hullavington development next week, with restoration of the Second World War hangars beginning in May.
The site was originally an RAF flying training station, opened in 1937, but has been largely inactive since the mid-1990s and was one of 12 put up for sale by the MoD in January 2016.
But Dyson doesn't build anything in the UK, all manufacturing is done in Malaysia, why would electric cars be any diffetent?
That is very true.
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There has been so much speculation about the future of Hullavington Airfield for the last year and now people living in the area know what is happening. Whatever Dyson does, he does it well, I am confident that the airfield is in safe hands and will be developed with respect for its Conservation Area status.
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I actually smell a rat here...............
Dyson 'needs' a new site, and suddenly 'out of the blue' Hullavington airfield is disposed of. Despite the ongoing use/requirement for the airfield site by the RLC for driver training, the Drops still done on the site, a based VGS on the site and also MQ's on the site.
I have a feeling that there have been 'discussions' behind closed doors here......and some brown envelopes
or am I just a conspiracy theorist gone mad ??
Hullavington Airifield - probably one of the (or the) best site for a multi-line winch launch VGS anywhere in the country both in terms of size, layout, availability and geography............gone for ever............
Has the new location for 621 VGS been confirmed yet ?
Arc
Dyson 'needs' a new site, and suddenly 'out of the blue' Hullavington airfield is disposed of. Despite the ongoing use/requirement for the airfield site by the RLC for driver training, the Drops still done on the site, a based VGS on the site and also MQ's on the site.
I have a feeling that there have been 'discussions' behind closed doors here......and some brown envelopes
or am I just a conspiracy theorist gone mad ??
Hullavington Airifield - probably one of the (or the) best site for a multi-line winch launch VGS anywhere in the country both in terms of size, layout, availability and geography............gone for ever............
Has the new location for 621 VGS been confirmed yet ?
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The VGS went in August last year, drops have not been carried out for a very long time and the MQ sites do not impinge on the airfield.
However although 90 acres were advertised on the open market late last year, the 536 acres that Dyson has bought do not appear to have been openly marketed.Given the potentially huge financial benefit to the local economy plus the 3000 jobs created, maybe it is the right decision just to to do a deal with Dyson.Far better than hundreds of tacky houses I think.
621 are storing some kit at Little Rissington, local rumour is that South Cerney is the new base but how that would work with Fairford departures remains to be seen.
However although 90 acres were advertised on the open market late last year, the 536 acres that Dyson has bought do not appear to have been openly marketed.Given the potentially huge financial benefit to the local economy plus the 3000 jobs created, maybe it is the right decision just to to do a deal with Dyson.Far better than hundreds of tacky houses I think.
621 are storing some kit at Little Rissington, local rumour is that South Cerney is the new base but how that would work with Fairford departures remains to be seen.
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I carried Mr Dyson some years ago on a private jet charter. During conversation, the Malaysia manufacturing topic came up. He said the company had tried to set up a plant in the Malmsbury area. He could not get planning permission from the local Council!
Poor decision as it turned out, for local employment.
I carried Mr Dyson some years ago on a private jet charter. During conversation, the Malaysia manufacturing topic came up. He said the company had tried to set up a plant in the Malmsbury area. He could not get planning permission from the local Council!
Poor decision as it turned out, for local employment.
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I too would rather see proper industry on the site than thousands of ticky-tack modern slum houses................
Although I would rather have seen it as an airfield !!
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Although I would rather have seen it as an airfield !!
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For information, the airfield had to be offered to sale under the Crichel Down rules which means that it had to be offered to the original landowners or their descendants Two parcels of the land were sold in this way and it would appear that Dyson has negotiated with the former owners descendants to acquire that land. The final area was acquired by Dyson when it was offered for sale on the open market.
