The Car Barn Ltd Classic Car Logistics

SPECIALIST IN CLOSED TRANSPORT OF CLASSIC, VINTAGE, PRESTIGE AND RACE CARS

We specialise in covered transportation of classic cars anywhere in the United Kingdom. We have 5 different sized vehicles capable of transporting all types of classic cars, race cars, 4x4s and even super cars. We have £3m insurance cover and use Tachographs. We are classic cars enthusiasts and love our work.

Contact Stephen 07801 077017 or Jack on 07955 062649

Email: Jack@thecarbarn.co.uk

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TwentySeven Works builds engaged audiences in digital. We specialise in social media, content marketing and innovative digital membership strategies for luxury and automotive brands.

Founded by the former editors of evo, Motor Sport, and TopGear.com

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Building 94-1, Bicester Heritage

No One Would Call Bicester

Heritage small, but it occupies only a fraction of the site that was bought ten years ago – about 20 acres of a 444-acre total. Some of this is the active airfield, but around that are other, currently unused areas. With the formation of Bicester Motion, which encompasses the entire site, all that could change.

“We now have consents for an extra million square feet around the site,” says CEO Dan Geoghegan. “We have the [existing] Heritage Quarter, plus the Innovation Quarter, Experience Quarter, Wilderness Quarter and airfield – five quarters, as we like to say. We can create a leading location for anything that moves.”

The Wilderness Quarter will have an off-roading area, but will be mostly about walking, cycling and nature – it already has three lakes. This area was part of the original RAF Bicester, but when the M40 was being built the site was dug for gravel, which have since formed lakes.

The plan for the Innovation Quarter is for it to be the base for yet more cutting-edge businesses. “We are just revisiting how that quarter works,” says Dan, “and giving it more of an embrace and sense of identity, which was what the RAF did here a century ago.

“Here, we’re in close proximity to the Oxford-Cambridge corridor, to Oxford itself and to Motorsport Valley components. There are a lot of innovative, exciting, well funded businesses in the area that need a home to crack this problem – the problem of the environment. If we’d started 20 years ago with a plot of land in the middle of Oxfordshire, we’d be saying ‘let’s kill cancer and do life sciences’, and that’s still happening – but the window that we are in at the moment, the focus, quite rightly is about the environment. It’s about saving the planet.

“Saving the planet is all about CO2… CO2 solutions are all about technology and innovation. Clearly, a central focus of that issue is around mobility, whether that’s flight, whether it’s motoring, and we find ourselves with a blank-canvas opportunity to create a home for all those exciting things. Let’s try to

ABOVE The new Experience Quarter will sit in 40 acres, while plans for a hotel are set to be revisited at a later date. RIGHT Bicester Motion will use the site to its utmost advantage.