MG Rover Prologis Park, Coventry - Any idea what happened there?

[Bluemoon Typhoon]

I am sure that one of the members on here will be an ex MGR employee who might be able to answer this one?

http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/imagehosting/thum_2706152b6081f786d1.jpg ('http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=17758')

My car was registered via this site in Coventry...but it looks from Google maps more like a warehouse than a dealership?

Maybe ex-display/exhibition vehicles were registered here before being moved on to dealerships? I suggest this because my monogram car was 10 months old before it was eventually registered, and 22 months old before being purchased by its first retail customer from Barrett's of Ashford, Kent with just 365 miles on the clock!

As the monogram programme was supposedly bespoke, I can only imagine that my car was built to be displayed somewhere to promote the concept. The build data suggests that my car was the 2nd Typhoon ZT saloon off the production line.

If anybody can shed any light I would be extremely grateful. :xmas-smiley-018:

Kind regards,

Mike

[Greeners]

you are not alone (http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=1419788&postcount=198)

probably a preparation centre

[Bluemoon Typhoon]

you are not alone (http://www.the75andztclub.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=1419788&postcount=198)

probably a preparation centre

Thankyou David. It seems strange that nobody seems to know what went on here?

I've searched this site top to bottom, but could find no reference to it apart from a similar query on another thread from Mr Doodles.

Hopefully somebody here might have a friend of a friend with some recollection of this place?

[persuer]

have a look at this it may help.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/4757369.stm

Looks like it was a distribution center.

[Bluemoon Typhoon]

have a look at this it may help.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/4757369.stm

Thanks persuer, the article suggests that Prologis Park Coventry is/was used primarily for warehousing.

Prologis (the owners of the site) build commercial properties and warehousing. They have a number of sites/industrial estates across the UK. MG Rover would have leased this unit; I just wondered what its actual purpose was (ie warehousing of what?)

I do like a mystery! :xmas-smiley-018:

[MrDoodles]

Ed's service book is stamped exactly the same, so I would assume that it was MGR's own centre, that did P.D.I's for cars sold onto their own Fleet and to people that were eligible to have a Company car within the Company! :)

[nomzamo999]

The Midlands equivalent of Area 51 maybe?

[Bluemoon Typhoon]

Ed's service book is stamped exactly the same, so I would assume that it was MGR's own centre, that did P.D.I's for cars sold onto their own Fleet and to people that were eligible to have a Company car within the Company! :)

Mr Doodles was there a sizeable gap between Ed's build date and his first registration, or did he go there straight from the factory?

If an MGR employee had my car they obviously didn't like driving it, or virtually lived on the premises....365 miles in 12 months!

I just wonder if there had been a tax or financial benefit to MGR of maybe registering cars for 12 months, putting negligible mileage on them, then selling them to dealers at a huge mark-down?:shrug:

[Bluemoon Typhoon]

The Midlands equivalent of Area 51 maybe?

Or maybe the naughty cars were just 'sent to Coventry'? :xmas-smiley-018:

[MrDoodles]

Mr Doodles was there a sizeable gap between Ed's build date and his first registration, or did he go there straight from the factory?

If an MGR employee had my car they obviously didn't like driving it, or virtually lived on the premises....365 miles in 12 months!

I just wonder if there had been a tax or financial benefit to MGR of maybe registering cars for 12 months, putting negligible mileage on them, then selling them to dealers at a huge mark-down?:shrug:

There was a longer gap than I expected, from memory I think it was 33 days!

The registration thing was the way that manufacturers got round the ban on "pre reg" cars and was simply a way of keeping the factories rolling and not filling up airfields with un-sold cars!

[trikey]

My ex demo V6 was registered there too, possibly the holding area for the demo vehicles.