Next time you're in London...

My wife and I were in London over the weekend and visited the Radical factory in Peterborough on Monday.

I emailed the head office early last week and it was quite easy to schedule a time for us to visit.

The train ride was a quick 50 mins from London's Kings Cross station plus a 5 min taxi ride to the factory -- highly recommended vs driving up which would have taken at least 90 mins.

Cheers to Naz for scheduling our visit and Will for being our tour guide.

Some things I learned...

Over 100 employees.  Three companies, basically.  The main "car" company, the engine company (RPE) and the machining/fabrication company, the latter of which does some work for outside customers.

150 cars a year, so about 3 shipping per week.  Seems like it takes about 3 days to get a car done once the frame is moved into the assembly area.  Parts (many/most? of which are made in-house) are collected and staged on a blue multi-level cart and then rolled to the assembly area to be installed on the car.

Interesting fact...  Wings are installed backwards at the factory (along with a warning sticker!!) so that the entire car can be loaded as cargo onto passenger planes.

Next time you're in London, take a trip up -- they're a great crew who make our cars!  They even dug up some info on my car -- apparently was the first demonstrator that went to Spring Mountain.