Sunbeamland, Wolverhampton Oct 2009

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Gangeox

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On a very recent trip to Wolverhampton and after doing our first choice site we had a look round and eagle eyed Neosea saw this place, so we thought lets have a look inside :) if your expecting lamposts, stenchpipes or drain covers look away now.

John Marston was born in Ludlow, Shropshire, U.K. in 1836, at 15, he was sent to Wolverhampton to be apprenticed to Edward Perry as a japanware manufacturer.
8 years later, he left and set up his own company: John Marston ltd. In 1897 they began making bicycles and Sunbeam was born, consequently the Paul street factory in Wolverhampton was named Sunbeamland.
In 1905 the Sunbeam Motor Car Company Ltd was born, but when a slump affected the car industry in 1912, they where pushed into producing motorcycles and following on from their bicycle production the motorcycles where of a very high quality.
After the First World War, the company was sold to a consortium, in 1927 this consortium was amalgamated to include I.C.I.
In 1937 AMC purchased the Sunbeam motorcycle trademark and moved the production to London. I.C.I who kept ownership of the building, proceeded to manufacture radiators for cars and aircraft at this site.
One of the most recent companies to use the site has been C E Marshall Automotive security products.

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You must be spiderman to get in here now! Had a look 2 weeks ago and there was a new set of boards where the access WAS! Nice work. Another local one to me that I've missed out on.
 
You bugger!!

Nice pics tho :swoon:

was goin to go check this place out

You must be spiderman to get in here now! Had a look 2 weeks ago and there was a new set of boards where the access WAS! Nice work. Another local one to me that I've missed out on.

I had a look Sunday night, locked up tighter than a nuns chuff! and even more so than it was before! :(
 
Sorry to hear that you guys missed out, we just happened to drop on it at the right time. :)

Thats part of ue, mate
well done on u gettin in tho
I'll just have to fill my time with another explore I've got :)
 
Britain Workshop of the World

The Days when Britain Manufactured Many World Class Products ,Britain Still Does Look at Rolls Royce Turbine Engines (Jets),and Many Other Fantastic Products are still made in Britain ,But on the Whole Manufacturing is only Flourishing in Countries with Cheap and Flexible Labour Markets ie Bad Working Conditions almost Slavery.
Factories Like this One Near me are Being Knocked Down and Had Flats Built On ,Brown Field Land Easy
to Get Planning Permission .Is The Going to be Low Unemployment in Britain with these Factories Knocked
Down ,I Wonder.
 
That's some very, very odd typing indeed mal33bb...

Anyway, thanks for sharing Gangeox - this place reminds me of a place in Aberdeen.
 
,But on the Whole Manufacturing is only Flourishing in Countries with Cheap and Flexible Labour Markets ie Bad Working Conditions almost Slavery.

This just is not true, take Germany and Japan, they still have car, truck, train, crane manufactures and so on. Even places like Iceland and Switzerland have large manufacturing companies

Its the lets make a fat buck attitude and indifferent politicians that has screwed up much of our industry
 

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