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McLaren Composites, the company set up to produce the carbon monocoques for the F1 was originally located in Shalford. Previously the building was a Ferrari design centre when John Barnard was still working for them so the place was already set up for autoclaving carbon composites I would presume.
A few years ago, the whole operation was moved to the south coast where it remains to this day. It continues to produce monocoques for the SLR project amoungst other things.
There are a couple of people on here that could probably give you more details. Nice place Shalford - nicer than Woking anyway...
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