Within
a couple of months, the employees of Motorsport Components Ltd will move premises
and become part of Lancashire-based Torotrak plc which earlier this month
acquired the business with its modest annualised turnover of £214,000 for
£175,000.
The five-man business has
worked closely in the past with the variable drive innovator, machining various
precision components including cases, shafts and actuator assemblies.
Now the team will form the
nucleus of a ‘new’ in-house manufacturing unit geared to short-run manufacture
of completed assemblies such as MKERS – mechanical kinetic energy recovery
systems – of the type that could be fitted to urban bus fleets.
Torotrak will maintain MCL’s
key customer relationships. However, the precision machining and fabrication services
will support the prototype and low-volume manufacturing requirements of
Torotrak’s programmes and will be a catalysts for growth in this area.
