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plough
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What a fascinating piece of film, thanks for posting it 🙂

Thankfully the Flightshed itself still stands and is now used by the current Chinese incumbents on part of the site.

SAIC MG have been using it mainly for engine testing (as it was during the days of Rover), but they are in the process of setting up a brand new engine test facility in part of the L-shaped building near to the flight shed, and have said they will no longer require use of the flight shed – they are due to hand it over to St Modwen in April next year, so its future may have a very large question mark over it (particularly bearing in mind that every other building handed back has now been flattened!).

The factory site will then be almost entirely contained within the the old peri track of Cofton Hackett airfield.

If anyone is interested, there is a fair bit of info on aircraft associated with Austin/Longbridge on http://www.austinmemories.com/