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When sparking plug manufactuer AC Sphinx moved their business from Birmingham to Dunstable in 1934, they built a large factory with an impressive art deco frontage alongside the A5 on the northern edge of town. In 1952 the company was renamed AC-Delco, now a division of General Motors.
The plant closed in early 2003, by then occupied by Trico Products, who I think made windscreen wipers.
Hopes that the frontage would be saved were dashed when the bulldozers moved in during July 2005; houses and flats now occupy the site, along such roads as Daimler Drive, Morris Road and Delco Way.
This picture was taken in September 1980, when both United Counties and London Country still operated works services out to here; UCOC Bristol FS 714, which later became a driver trainer, pulls out, bound for Luton on a short 68 working.
Pentax SP1000/50mm
Ilford FP4
Home time
When sparking plug manufactuer AC Sphinx moved their business from Birmingham to Dunstable in 1934, they built a large factory with an impressive art deco frontage alongside the A5 on the northern edge of town. In 1952 the company was renamed AC-Delco, now a division of General Motors.
The plant closed in early 2003, by then occupied by Trico Products, who I think made windscreen wipers.
Hopes that the frontage would be saved were dashed when the bulldozers moved in during July 2005; houses and flats now occupy the site, along such roads as Daimler Drive, Morris Road and Delco Way.
This picture was taken in September 1980, when both United Counties and London Country still operated works services out to here; UCOC Bristol FS 714, which later became a driver trainer, pulls out, bound for Luton on a short 68 working.
Pentax SP1000/50mm
Ilford FP4