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Mini achieved a new sales record in the USA after delivering 66,123 cars during 2012, a 15% increase compared with the previous year
Founded: 1963 Founder: Bruce McLaren
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n 2013, Mini UK, and parent company BMW Group, will celebrate 100 years of car-making at its plant in Cowley, Oxford. Since 1913, tens of thousands of people – 26,000 at the peak in the 1950s and 60s - have worked on the site building over 11 million cars under brands including Austin Healey, MG, Wolseley, Riley, Austin, Mini, Vanden Plas, Princess, Triumph, Rover,
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Honda, Sterling, the founding marque Morris and over two million MINIs since 2000. The Oxford plant has generated considerable wealth for the UK, as well as for many other countries around the world, during its 100 years. Today, Plant Oxford manufactures the Mini hatchback, Convertible, Clubman, Clubvan, Roadster and Coupe - 80% of which are exported to over 100 global markets.
urrounded by fewer than half a dozen loyal souls, the 27-yearold winner of the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix founded his own racing team the following TH year… Bruce McLaren Motor Racing. Bruce McLaren and his team slogged across the world to race his self-made Pic ?????? cars, but his legacy 50 years on is a group employing more than 2,000 people. On September 2 2013, the McLaren Group will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Its Formula 1 team has become a global household name and the world’s richest queue up for its supercars for the road. Since the first McLaren lined up on an F1 starting grid in 1966, the team has won 182 races, more than any other constructor. “Bruce McLaren wrote the beginning of the story, and the legend is going to continue for many years to come,” said Ron Dennis CBE, executive chairman of McLaren Group and McLaren Automotive.
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Iconic British motorsport company, McLaren, reaches its half century this year
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Founded: 1913 Founder: Percy Ritherdon
Founded: 1862 by Carl Brandauer and Joseph Letiere Petit
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manufacturer, celebrated 100-years as a limited company TH on January 4. Ritherdon was formed in 1895 by Percy Ritherdon, but it didn’t register as a company until January 1913. When the company was founded, Ritherdon produced magic tricks for professional magicians. To ensure optimum quality and precise fabrication for these kits, Ritherdon worked closely with Chung Ling Soo – an American-born magician who rose to fame in the early 20th century. After WW1, Ritherdon moved into sheet metal work. The company went on to produce electrical enclosures for Naval Warships during the Second World War and during the 50’s and 60’s supplied the nuclear industry with electrical enclosures for control panels.
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Pic ?????? r Ruth Brandauer and her son and Jakob visited Birmingham in January to join the 150th anniversary celebrations of her great-great-grandfather’s engineering firm – 98 years after the British Government branded her family as ‘enemy aliens’. The Viennese Brandauers came to mark the anniversary of the company that now manufactures precision metal pressings for electronics, medical, healthcare, construction and renewable energy sectors.
They visited their ancestor’s original factory in New John Street West before a grand dinner at Birmingham’s Museum & Art Gallery with guests from including Birmingham VIPs, family members and employees past and present. At the outbreak of WW1, after half a century of investment, the Brandauer family found themselves classed as ‘enemy aliens’ and stripped of their property.
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