Millbrook and LTC achieve 50 and 40 year anniversaries
By Jim Gibbins - 1st July 2020
UK – Bedfordshire-based vehicle testing and validation enterprise, Millbrook plc is celebrating its 50th anniversary of the proving ground at Millbrook, while its Leyland facility, formerly the Leyland Vehicles Technical Centre, is celebrating 40 years of operation this year.
Millbrook acquired the Leyland site in 2017 to further its involvement in the development of commercial vehicles. The Leyland technical centre, which was officially opened in 1980 included a test track specifically designed for commercial vehicles together with a semi-anechoic chamber (a semi anechoic chamber (SAC) simulates an open area test site). It also housed unique facilities and technologies for the time, including a structures laboratory with a 1.2 mega-watt pumping station and 1,000 tonne seismic block.
