Pace Factory Demo

[JeRkY]

Tim, I don't suppose you know who has bought the land do you. In that area I have a sneaking suspicion that I do.

 

[dbmtb]

You're not going to use the T-word are you?

 

[Dr S]

Ker-ching!

I wonder how many houses they are going to ram onto that plot then?

 

[justbackdated]

Doors and all timber has gone apart from the office 2 storey bit you can see beyond the rubble pile.

The land is in the hands of a contractor who has planning permission for 4 or 5 terraced cottages and a detached house.

The site originally had an old timber[!] clad building that was a forge and was replaced by the big sheds when run by a company making farming implements and trailers. They then went on to building steel framed sheds again for farm/industrial use.

Not sure when Pace moved in but it was to bring together the manufacturing side from Duncans workshop and the administrative bits from Wilsden.

Bit sad to see somewhere I spent a lot of time being wiped from the face of the Earth, but hey...thats progress I guess.

 

[justbackdated]

Pics of the clearout a couple of years back

 

[Dr S]

Tim, did Ricky Feather end up with that old Bridgeport mill that was sat in there? The one on his blog looks like the old Pace one.

 

[gil_m]

Yes, Ricky has the Bridgeport

 

[Dr S]

Yes, Ricky has the Bridgeport

Bugger. I wanted that.

 

[Rich34]

This is such a shame - I got back into cycling a couple of years ago and having decided modern stuff wasn't for me it was a revelation finding this site and seeing all the kit from '89, '90 and '91, which was my era. One of the questions I had was "I wonder what Pace bikes look like now?" as they were so off the wall back in the day. Square tubes and hydraulic brakes, ferchrissakes. And this is the answer... :cry:

 

[Grannygrinder]

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Dr S. Is there a reason why you wanted the Pace Bridgeport mill specifically?
My company is in the process of selling some you see, so if its just a specific model that you need i could have a word?