Gleaned with thanks from a pal who knows this sort of stuff."Vehicle manufacture and specialist vehicles were common between here and Slough.AEC and Park Royal Vehicles Builders of the legendary Routemaster and legions of heavy trucks.Citroen in Slough building the Traction Avant models.Frazernash in IsleworthPackhard here in Brentford.H J Mulliner Park Ward ad a place in Turnham Green and a body shop locally.Rambler of the USA had a place hereFIAT had a huge complex on the Great West RoadBristol Cars main service centre was on the A4 at Chiswick until very recently.Reselco, one of the first adapters of cars (mainly Mk2 Minis) for disabled drivers was based in Chiswick and Hammersmith.Rolls-Royce/Bentley had a major facility in Park Royal.Then there was Trico, Firestone and a few other automotive manufacturers.There was a huge skilled engineering workforce in the area from Hammersmith to Feltham and Ruislip and up to North West London. It's no co-incidence that this also spawned the film industry as the production skills and crafts were from the same font of resources.
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