Recently Paul Cowland took our Zero demonstrator for a few days and enjoyed the experience, read more about is experience on a recent review that can now be seen on the Hagerty website or please click here to read the full review.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a CNC Machinist / Programmer to join our team.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the enthusiastic and dynamic team at GBS with many exciting things happening this year and new products planned to be released.
We are looking to significantly grow GBS in the coming year, this role for a CNC Machinist will be based on site at Great British Sports Cars Ltd (NG22 9ZD) within the engineering and workshop facilities.
To apply for this role please forward your CV and a covering letter to the email provided on our GBS Careers page or click below for more details.
An opportunity has arisen for a Workshop Mechanic / Car Builder to join our team.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the enthusiastic and dynamic team at GBS. We are expanding our team this year and the ideal candidate will enjoy the challenge of working on a range of vehicles including the Great British Sports Cars Zero and have an interest in all things mechanical.
We are looking to significantly grow GBS in the coming year, this role will be based on site at Great British Sports Cars Ltd (NG22 9ZD) within the workshop facilities.
To apply for this role please forward your CV and a covering letter to the email provided on our GBS Careers page or click below for more details.
We are pleased to share with you the First flight test of a landmark project we have been involved with for the past few years. We have been working with Vertical aerospace and have been supporting the design and then the manufacture of the landing gear for both the nose and main landing gear. All the GBS Team are extremely proud to be part of such and exciting project and new phase for air travel and UK engineering. Click below to see the video of the first flight that took place recently.
With full in-house design, development, manufacturing and testing we manage projects through the full product life cycle from concept to final production. Our capabilities range from less complicated prototype fabrication to complex composite structures. Tell us what you are looking for and hopefully we can help. Contact us.
An opportunity has arisen for a CNC Machinist / Programmer to join our team.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the enthusiastic and dynamic team at GBS with many exciting things happening and new products planned.
We are looking to significantly grow GBS in the coming years, this role for a CNC Machinist will be based on site at Great British Sports Cars Ltd (NG22 9ZD) within the engineering and workshop facilities.
To apply for this role please forward your CV and a covering letter to the email provided on our GBS Careers page or click below for more details.
We are proud to announce that an exciting project is now underway along with a consortium of businesses. This project will embed new manufacturing technology in the UK and contribute to decarbonisation of the Foundation Industries.
'Hydrogen and Value-Added-Carbon production through Waste-Heat-Recovery' (Hy-Value Recovery) will up-scale a manufacturing process for a sustainable, affordable, value-added-carbon product for the Foundation-Industry Chemicals sector through utilising high-grade waste-heat from steel/glass furnaces.
Q-Flo's Value-Added-Carbon product range, Torstran, is produced by high temperature processing of methane/hydrocarbon feedstocks including renewables/wastes (e.g. from land-fill, biogas, hot-steel reaction gases) to give a carbon nanotube product in a safe bundled structure.
Hy-Value Recovery' will develop / build / operate an industrially-relevant-scale Torstran-Production-Demonstrator, at Glass Futures pilot plant in St Helens, Merseyside, demonstrating continuous 24-7 operation at an industrially-relevant scale, producing large volumes of Torstran and pure hydrogen for evaluation within industrial, aerospace and automotive applications.
Tata Steel UK will evaluate integration with their operations, use of the hydrogen by-products as a process-gas in annealing ovens, and explore use of Torstran to add functionality to their products. University of Cambridge and Glass Futures will evaluate Torstran coatings on glass/steel. Almath Crucibles will evaluate Torstran-enhanced ceramics. Torstran has demonstrated excellent potential for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and as a composite in reduced-weight electric vehicles. Great British Sports Cars and United Aerospace will lead further optimisation/ validation/ electric vehicle trials.
Martin Pick, Q-Flo - “The Hy-Value Recovery project is a tremendous boost to the development of this technology. The project and its partners bring expertise, knowledge and resources which will be invaluable in helping us achieve our mission to scale the carbon nanotube production process and become key supply chain partners in exciting emergent markets. Innovation from University of Cambridge, along with support from Innovate UK, has been crucial to this and we are very pleased the manufacturing is now beginning in the UK”
Richard Hall, Great British Sportcars - “Great British Sports Cars (GBS) are pleased to have been awarded this project along with Q-Flo and other partners and are very much looking forward to working with the Project members to develop these new applications and opportunities that we can demonstrate the processing and manufacturability of the material in novel real world applications.”
Rob Ireson, Innovation and Partnerships Manager at Glass Futures - "Glass Futures (GF) are delighted to be working with Q-flo on this project to develop new techniques for improving the efficiency of its Torstran manufacturing processes through the utilisation of the waste heat energy from industrial processes. We will host the technology at our pilot facility and demonstrate its continuous operation on our new 30T/day furnace to show how this can be applied to commercial glass furnaces.
“We believe that the ultra-long carbon nanotube materials produced with this process have potential to add value to a range of applications and products manufactured within the Foundation Industries (FI), such as new conductive coatings and improved industrial abatement technologies. GF are very much looking forward to working with the Project team to develop and evaluate these new application opportunities and establish itself as a global centre for FI development”
The funding was provided through Innovate UK’s Transforming Foundation Industries challenge which is helping energy-intensive businesses to share expertise and come up with radical new innovations to help reduce their carbon footprint. It is part of UKRI’s Challenge fund which is bringing together the UK’s world-leading research base with our best businesses to transform how we live, work and move around.
Bruce Adderley, Innovate UK Challenge Director for the Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge, added: “Underpinned by circular economy thinking, the Foundation Industries and their supply chain partners are bringing forward a range of new innovations as they move towards a sustainable competitive future. But these need to be demonstrated at scale if they are to be rapidly deployed in the UK and taken to international markets. That is why we are delighted to be able to support projects like Hy-Value Recovery that are up-scaling manufacturing processes to develop and evaluate new application opportunities that will significantly reduce the carbon footprint of foundation industries, create high-value jobs, and make it internationally competitive.”
The outcome for GBS in this project will be to produce a demonstrator vehicle showcasing the technology in the real world which will demonstrate the processing and manufacturability of the material in finish components. This project is now underway and further updates will be shared later this year as the project develops.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Workshop Mechanic/Car Builder to join our team. Our company manufactures cars as well as other engineering projects from concept to final production, and one off specials to Formula 1 cars.
This is not simply working in your normal workshop; this is an exciting opportunity to join the enthusiastic and dynamic workshop team at GBS. The ideal candidate will enjoy the challenge of working on a range of vehicles including the Great British Sports Cars Zero and have an interest in all things mechanical.
This role for a Workshop Mechanic/Car Builder will be based on site at Great British Sports Cars Ltd (NG22 9ZD) within the engineering and workshop facilities.
To apply for this role please forward your CV and a covering letter to the email provided on our GBS Careers page or click below for more details.
An opportunity has arisen for a CNC Machinist / Programmer to join our team.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the enthusiastic and dynamic team at GBS with many exciting things happening in the new year and new products planned.
We are looking to significantly grow GBS in the coming year, this role for a CNC Machinist will be based on site at Great British Sports Cars Ltd (NG22 9ZD) within the engineering and workshop facilities.
To apply for this role please forward your CV and a covering letter to the email provided on our GBS Careers page or click below for more details.
Due to the significant growth we have seen this year, we are now looking to expand our team. With this new opportunity that has arisen for an experienced Welder / Fabricator to join our existing fabrication team. This will be an exciting new role with many new products planned.
We are looking to significantly grow GBS in the coming year, this role for a Welder / Fabricator to join our team will be based on site at Great British Sports Cars Ltd (NG22 9ZD) within the fabrication and manufacturing facilities.
We are seeking an energetic, organised and driven applicant to join our team. To apply for this role please forward your CV and a covering letter to the email provided on our GBS Careers page or click below for more details and to keep a look out for more job openings we will be releasing later in the year.
With full in-house design, development, manufacturing and testing we manage projects through the full product life cycle from concept to final production. Our capabilities range from less complicated prototype fabrication to complex composite structures.
Visit our GBS engineering page to see more of what we do or tell us what you are looking for and hopefully we can help.
Reverse engineering of components–
Above was a recent project that we got involved with and these parts have been reversed engineered from an original Lotus Formula One Car that had a Lamborghini engine, the parts had worn out and corroded beyond repair. So, we reverse engineered them into a CAD model for critical dimensions then re designed them for manufacture from billet instead of original casting to give exactly the same function and performance without the cost of re casting. See below some more photographs of some products that we design and manufacture.
The GBS Machine Shop is always busy with lots of products in production like the ATR Products Fuel Filler Caps, Suspension Components, Brake Components and much more. We have invested heavily in CNC machine tools, with the Hardinge 4 axis CNC milling machine and CNC Lathe and we have recently invested in more machinery and equipment which we will share more with you in the new year.
Our philosophy remains to design and manufacture critical and custom components in-house. This ensures the highest quality, control of costs and lead times. For those parts we do not manufacture and wherever possible we select local sources to streamline the management of our supply chain and our delivery commitments. The Kit Spares Showroom and shop has a full range of ATR Products on display for you to view and we are pleased to now have a dedicated ATR Products page on the Kit Spares website, where the ATR Products can all be viewed and purchased online and also instore.
Tell us what you are looking for and hopefully we can help you.
Follow GBS and ATR Products on Instagram to see more behind the scenes of we are designing and engineering -
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An opportunity has arisen for a Design Engineer to join our team, this will be an exciting role with many new products planned and the involvement in a new car project.
We are looking to significantly grow GBS in the coming year, this role for a Design Engineer to join our team will be based on site at Great British Sports Cars Ltd (NG22 9ZD) within the office, warehousing and manufacturing facilities.
We are seeking an energetic, organised and driven applicant to join our team. To apply for this role please forward your CV and a covering letter to the email provided on our careers page or click below for more details.
To enhance our manufacturing capabilities here at GBS, we recently invested in Autodesk software platforms via Cadspec. We wanted to design, manufacture as much as we can in-house and this gives us a lot more flexibility on the design, options and performance, which we can then pass on to the customer.
We are pleased to say that we are really pleased and excited about the new software Autodesk as it is helping us to grow our manufacturing and engineering capabilities. On a recent component that we had in production it saved us a whole 7 minutes, which is a massive time saving.
We manufacture a full range of components in house for the Zero and other sports cars, to see more about the products that we manufacture please visit www.atrproducts.co.uk and follow us on Instagram to see more behind the scenes of what we are upto.
It was also great to be featured in the March issue of the MTD Magazine about our recent investment in Autodesk with Cadspec. We look forward to working with MTD Team again later this year and doing more track days and events together.
All of the ATR Product range is available online from Kit Spares, visit www.kitspares.co.uk to see the full product range.
Easter Opening Times:
Over Easter GBS and Kit Spares will be closed for the long weekend from 2nd - 5th April and be back to normal opening hours on Tuesday 6th April.
Beginning of last year we first announced our collaboration project between our selves and Motorsport Tools (MST) where we were to develop this brand new MST Mk2 to get it road legal with a new registration. Many of you may have already seen it on social media and on various website like Piston Heads and Top Gear as it has attracted a lot of attention.
We are pleased to see it now fully road legal and road registered on a 70 Plate, it was collected end of December. We have done a lot of bespoke design and fabrication work and it is powered by the 2.5 Ford Duratec engine with our ATR Throttle Bodies and many other ATR Products including the Sump, gear Shift and more.
To see more details about the MST Mk2 please visit our YouTube where you can see a detailed video about the build and our involvement or please visit the Motorsport Tools website for more details.
Click here to visit our GBS Workshop Services or please contact us to discuss.
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