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From 2003, motorsport powertrain specialist Menard Competition Technologies also maintained offices and workshops at the site. Throughout the later half of the decade to 2010, this engineering company (including some key engineers from the engine department of Tom Walkinshaw Racing) traded from
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million, with 80 masts 180 feet (55 m) high. The GPO also built a training college for apprentice engineers, at first with a 50-bed residential wing. After most maritime traffic switched to satellite communication, the radio station was closed in 1986.
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After Caterham declared bankruptcy in early 2015, Leafield Technical Centre was abandoned and put up for sale. In early 2020, it was reported that the site had been heavily vandalized during the five-year period of abandonment.
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In 2023, holiday accommodation developer Cabu was granted planning permission for partial demolition and redevelopment of the site with holiday cabins, entertainment, and spa facilities.
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is a former radio communications station, now a motorsports centre of excellence, in the hamlet of Langley, in the western part of the village of
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models from 2009. The company traded until 2011 and was formally dissolved in 2014.
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team moved to the vacant Leafield site from their original base at
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Sold to a commercial property company, the site was then leased by
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Much of the site was returned to the Crown but in 1988
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The station was rebuilt in 1961–1962 at a cost of £1
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Leafield wireless station

Leafield
Oxfordshire
Crown Estate
Marconi Company
General Post Office
Imperial Wireless Chain
Portishead Radio
British Telecom
Tom Walkinshaw Racing
Arrows
Formula One
2002 season
Super Aguri F1
2006 season
2008 season
dynamometers
Kidlington
V12
Superleague Formula
Norton Motorcycles'
Commando 961
Caterham F1
Hingham, Norfolk




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