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Plant Oxford on the Oxford Ring Road (A4142). Plant Oxford located in Cowley, southeast Oxford, England, is a BMW car assembly facility where Mini cars are built. The plant forms the Mini production triangle along with Plant Hams Hall where engines are manufactured and Plant Swindon where body pressings and sub-assemblies are built.
The 2010 Mini Challenge season was the ninth season of the Mini Challenge UK. The season started on 10 April at Rockingham Motor Speedway and ended on 29 August at Thruxton Circuit . The season featured seven rounds across the UK.
For financial reasons, British Leyland elected to discontinue support for the Jaguar racing entries in the ETCC, and in 1977 Ralph Broad sold Broadspeed to a former Mini-racing colleague before retiring to Portugal. [3] While living in Portugal, Broad worked for Fogo Montanha, a manufacturer of woodburning stoves. He died on 17 September 2010. [3]
Little Somerford is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Malmesbury and 7.5 miles (12.1 km) northeast of Chippenham. The northern boundary of the parish follows approximately the B4040 Malmesbury– Swindon road.
Somerford is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is adjacent to the north west of Congleton, from which town it has some housing overflow. According to the 2001 census, the population of the civil parish was 343, [1] increasing to 430 at the 2011 Census. [2]
A Halfords in Kirkstall, Leeds (2006). Halfords was founded by Frederick Rushbrooke, in Birmingham in 1892, as a wholesale ironmongery. [3] The company takes its name from Halford Street, named after the physician, Henry Halford, in Leicester, where Rushbrooke opened a store in 1902 and started selling cycling goods.
When the Malmesbury branch line was opened in 1877, it left the Great Western Main Line at Dauntsey and had one intermediate station just north of Great Somerford.In 1903 the Great Western Railway opened the South Wales Main Line which provided a more direct route to South Wales, passing close to the south of Little Somerford village and to the north of the earlier line.
The Mini Moke is a small, front-wheel-drive utility and recreational convertible, conceived and manufactured as a lightweight military vehicle by British Motor Corporation (BMC), and subsequently marketed for civilian use under the Austin, Morris, Leyland, and Moke brands. The name "Mini Moke" combines mini with moke, an archaic term for a mule.