THE ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE HISTORIC AND CLASSIC MOTOR INDUSTRY IN THE UK

67 Shropshire 0.6% 114 54 700 Somerset 0.9% 173 83 1,069 Staffordshire 1.0% 182 87 1,120 Suffolk 1.2% 214 102 1,321 Surrey 3.6% 661 316 4,074 Sussex 4.5% 819 391 5,050 Tyne and Wear 0.6% 110 52 677 Wales 2.7% 494 236 3,043 Warwickshire 1.6% 285 136 1,755 West Midlands 9.6% 1,755 838 10,823 Wiltshire 1.2% 229 109 1,409 Worcestershire 0.9% 163 78 1,003 Yorkshire 8.2% 1,493 713 9,208 Total 100.0% 18,301 8,741 112,837 Source: Car and Classic, ONS, Cebr analysis 14.8 Clusters The historic and classic motor industry and the UK motorsports industry feed off each other (both have historic links to the UK’s aerospace and motor vehicle sectors). Of the ten F1 teams, eight have at least a presence in the UK and six have their main base in the UK. Most noticeable is the cluster near the racing circuit at Silverstone where 4,300 high tech companies employ 41,000 employees in highly skilled jobs. Bicester Heritage (see above) is within this cluster and benefits from the concentration of skills in the area. Companies that would not normally be thought of as having a UK base including parts of Ferrari, Mercedes and Renault have strong motor sports links to the UK. The supply chain for these businesses incorporates advanced skills such as 3D printing that can be used to support the historic and classic motor vehicles sectors. Other automotive clusters are near the British Motor Museum at Gaydon and the Advanced Manufacturing Centre at Warwick University, near McLaren in Woking, near Ricardo and Rolls Royce in Sussex; in the North East of England based on Nissan and near JCB and Toyota in Derby. Many of these companies link with the modern automotive industry and with motor sports but their skills are also applied to the historic and classic motor sector as well.