(Edited version of their press releases).
Mayflower is a big industrial corporation and its Automotive Division is one of the secret weapon of the British car industry.
Two member companies opf Mayflower Automotive Division presented their products in Frankfurt: Motor Panels and International Automotive Design (IAD).
IAD is responsible for the product development and is capable of taking a project from a 'clean sheet of paper' through to a fully engineered and tested design ready for production. The highyl confidential nature of this work means that IAD projects are rarerly reported on.
As a demonstration of its full service expertise, the Group is exhibited an example of the the new MGF sports car, in which Mayflower has invested over 20 million pounds.
MGF body structure
Motor Panels was responsible for the body engineering and turning the design concept into a production reality, whils developing the body assembly systems, processes and facilities.
In production terms, Motor Panels presses and assembles the fully finished body shells before shipment to Rover for paint, trim and final assembly.
MGF on the assembly line

The second example of its experitse is in the range materials used, where Mayflower will exhibit class A aluminium body panels for the popular Land Rover Discovery - a prgramme for which Motor Panels was responsible for the body engineering, prototype and tooling programmes. The company manufactures the body panels on a just-in-time basis to Land Rover.
Land Rover Discovery aluminium panels

IAD Eurotaxi
In addition to the MGF structure and the Discovery panels this prototype was also shown, but without any further details given.


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Copyright September, 1995
Paul Negyesi
Budapest, Hungary.
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