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Spring 2014 Newsletter Silverstone Parklife Spring 2014 Menu SilverstoneParklife Featured Articles BACK Offices Workshops and storage units Virtual tenancy and serviced office space available now New, flexible accommodation at MEPC Silverstone in Silverstone Park’s Innovation Centre designed to Park. Now part of MEPC’s 2.4million sq ft development. 01327 856000 accommodate businesses between 1-20 people on Visit our website for further details, or contact flexible terms. James Watson at DTRE on 020 3328 9086 Silverstone Parklife Spring 2014 Menu Welcome... Welcome to MEPC’s first quarterly Work has already begun to upgrade the ...to the start e-newsletter designed to keep you landscape by opening up the area around the balancing pond and removing old hedges and up to speed with developments at trees. This is to make way for extra outdoor of something Silverstone Park. seating areas, new footpaths through the Estate and new planting. As you know, MEPC purchased a 999 year amazing interest in 130 acres of land around Silverstone I am aware that a lot of companies do not realise circuit in September 2013 which includes 2.4 that the meeting rooms on the second floor of the million sq ft of planning consent for a variety of Silverstone Park Innovation Centre are available business space users including: research and to all occupier companies to hire. To find out development, manufacturing, automotive brand more please contact Linda, Ruth or Helen, centres, offices, educational uses and hotels. the MEPC team based at the Innovation Centre, on 01327 856000. We are currently progressing a number of different work streams including a review I hope you enjoy this newsletter which you will of the current master plan which includes the be pleased to know has also been issued to development of the arrival experience at the specialist, trade and regional media in recent Estate and a £12m order to upgrade all utilities. days in order to raise awareness of some We are also working on the development of the of the many great success stories from you new brand proposition with the aim of creating – the Silverstone Park business community. a world class destination for high performance technology companies which will attract Roz Bird, Commercial Director 01327 856000 a diverse range of businesses from small Roz Bird, Commercial Director start-ups to famous blue chip names. Silverstone Parklife Spring 2014 Menu Man with a plan In Neil Patterson, students at Neil’s first project for McLaren was working Of MEPC’s plans for Silverstone Park he comments: Silverstone Park’s University on a city car – dubbed the T25 – in conjunction “Clearly they are all about bringing like-minded with one of motor sport and motoring’s most people together in one place which is essential. Technology College (UTC) couldn’t innovative designers, Gordon Murray. From there There also seems to be a very clear strategy to wish for a more passionate principal he focused on the body of Mercedes’s SLR ensure the estate is about companies of all sizes – when it comes to communicating before being appointed chief engineer on its not just the big players. It’s important to remember engineering excellence – after all SLR Roadster. that even the biggest companies started off as just one person. It’s also the smaller companies who Overseeing overall design of McLaren’s he took on the role straight from are crucial to the supply chain. The whole project sensational MP4-12C supercar was his final 15 years working as a chief is clearly about stimulating creativity, not stifling it. project before a career change as a UTC It’s a fantastic vision.” engineer with revered supercar principal. Talk about going out on a high… manufacturer McLaren! The 45-year-old’s early CV included jobs designing “Even at school I wanted to be a teacher one day – I had some very industrial ball valves for oil rigs, body panelling for inspirational teachers – and my boss making robotic tools was a genius 01327 856000 a Leyland DAF van and even robotic machinery before an opportunity came up with one of the which really set me off on a creative path. I’d heard of UTCs and when automotive industry’s most famous names. this opportunity came up I jumped at it.” Silverstone Parklife Spring 2014 Menu No escape It reads like something out of a James Bond or Bourne movie but from inside “To recover a stolen motorcycle its secretive Silverstone Park headquarters – and with a little help from over 1,000 miles away is no better Interpol – Road Angel has remarkably tracked a motorbike stolen from example of the effectiveness of London all the way to Lithuania some 1,000 miles away… tracking technology. This is naturally Using Road Angel’s Bike Trac technology, the Even when the thieves sneakily chose an a huge success for us, but it’s also £12,000 Ducati 899 Panigale quickly sent out alternative route which by-passed a major road a great example to everyone that a distress signal to its owner. From there it was block set up on the Polish border they were still tracking really does work. I’d like to over to staff from Bike Trac, parent company being watched by the Bike Trac and Road Angel Road Angel and Interpol who followed the team. And when the bike eventually came to a personally thank everyone involved bike’s journey using a mixture of GPS signal prolonged stop around 36 hours after its theft in this recovery from our team at and triangulation of sim masts across Europe. a solid fixed signal was established and police HQ to Interpol and to the Lithuanian were able to move in and recover it. The Bike Trac device – designed, developed authorities. It’s very pleasing to 01327 856000 and manufactured inside Road Angel’s Sue Hitchmough, General Manager for Bike Trac know so many people want to Silverstone Park HQ – is believed to be the parent company Road Angel Group, commented: most advanced of its type in the world. stamp out bike theft.” Silverstone Old dog, new tricks Parklife “I came into this building when completed in 1980. We’re the oldest address here but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed Spring 2014 it and the security of the place – it’s not just some industrial estate.” A glowing testament indeed of MEPC’s again with two state-of-the-art Nissan-powered intercoolers and oil and fuel tanks for diesel Menu Silverstone Park but consider the French Oreca machines in the LMP2 category of engine aircrafts and unmanned aerial vehicles the World Endurance Championship which starts its (UAVs), for example, is rife. words also come from one of the most season just a few yards from Docking’s front door Nextdoor Docking’s Earls business is the number straight-talking people there is in on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit in mid-April. one supplier of braided hose and fittings to motor motor sport, no nonsense Australian It’s a fiercely determined joint project sport teams across Britain and has been since Alan Docking who’s not one for PR that affects neighbour Delta Motorsports he became the exclusive UK importer for the now puff, and they really do take a whole as well, the cars running under the Delta-ADR Kentucky-based Earls in the Nineties. Its machine new level of credibility. banner and having won their category in four shop skills, manufacturing parts that meet the of the last five events of the 2013 season. needs of British-based competitors left, right and Mark Webber, Jacques Villeneuve, Mika Salo, centre are enviable as is the output. Stefan Johansson… the roster of F1 drivers and But success on the track is just a part other greats plus engineering geniuses (Ferrari’s of the modern-day story that, with 30 full-time From F1 right down to amateur club racers, Rory Byrne and Williams’s Pat Symonds) to have staff, also boasts a fascinating fabrication Docking’s Earls venture is relied upon daily by stood in, had seat fittings in, stayed late nights business (Docking Engineering) and one of the many and makes for the biggest and most with the mechanics in, walked through the door most important precision machine shops to feed successful part of the business. It’s an incredible or simply been in the employ of Alan Docking the UK’s world-renowned motor sport industry undertaking that leaves plenty of food for thought Racing, Unit 15, Silverstone Park is incredible. (Earls Performance Products). for it means, just about every half hour or so on Sunday afternoons, there is very probably a race, The former, originally known as Docking So too the cars, whether Mazdaspeed’s Le Mans rally, hillclimb, sprint or autotest being won & Co when formed in 1983, thinks up cooling 24 Hours sportscar challenger of 30 years ago, somewhere around the land by a car built with system solutions for not just race cars but all touring cars, F3, F2, A1GP and Superleague parts courtesy of Unit 15, Silverstone Park. Formula single-seaters. Nowadays it’s sportscars sorts of outrageous machines: production of From F1 right down to amateur club racers, Docking’s Earls venture is relied upon daily... 01327 856000 “Then there is the prestige about a location such Silverstone as Silverstone Park. There’s a natural association New kids with the circuit and, with the sector we recruit in, Parklife that made it an obvious choice. Spring 2014 on the “We’ve also instantly found MEPC to be extremely helpful and welcoming. The facilities are top notch, plus being based in the Innovation Centre Menu block gives us additional access to very stylish and well-managed meeting rooms which is a bonus, particularly when we need to meet candidates in confidence.” Expion, a headhunting specialist in the automotive and FMCG It’s not only the automotive and fast moving industries, is among the newest consumer goods markets that Expion applies its companies to move onto ‘search and selection’ skills – the company also Silverstone Park and says the has strength in the pharmaceutical and medical estate’s location is key to its devices market and is proud to be associated with high street brands such as Nestlé, Bird’s Eye future ambitions.
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