IIRC the Honda factory at South Marston was originally a Vickers Armstrong shadow factory which last built electrical wiring looms for the BAC 1-11.
Almost as bizarre is that a significant portion of the British Aircraft Industry is alive & well and living in Wichita, Kansas. Apart from the many engineers who came across the pond in support of the Challenger (and later CRJ) program, several ex-Shorts engineers came for the Learjet 45 and never went back.
Beech took over building the HS125 so they offered anyone from Chester who wanted to move a job in Wichita. When, a few years later, Airbus came back to Chester looking for the old Wing Group to design the A380 wing, they were informed that they were now in Kansas! Which is why one of Airbus' Design Offices is in downtown Wichita.