> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Maddock [SMTP:rmaddock(at)petrie.starway.net.au]
> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 1998 8:10 AM
> To: Alpine List
> Subject: Rootes plants
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Atherton <gumby(at)connectexpress.com>
> To: Russell Maddock <rmaddock(at)petrie.starway.net.au>; Alpine List
> <alpines(at)autox.team.net>
> Date: Sunday, 17 May 1998 19:43
> Subject: Re: fast back Alpines?
>
>
> >Please do. I'd love to see where they were built. Is the Coventry plant
> where
> >the Alpines were built still intact, or has it been demolished and
> replaced
> by
> >something newer?
> >
> >Rich
>
>
> Sure is, and still a car factory in fact. These days they build Peugeots
> though. My photos of this plant aren't all that exciting. There are lots
> of
> trees around it, presumably to keep prying eyes from spotting the latest
> models.
>
> I didn't go looking for the Armstrong Siddeley factory where the first
> Alpines were made.
>
> Russ Maddock
> Brisbane, Australia
> http://www.petrie.starway.net.au/~sunbeam
> Sunbeam Imp Sport
> Sunbeam Alpine SIII GT
> Talbot Alpine GLS
> Peugeot 505 STi
>