Final demolition of AGCO's Banner Lane, Coventry tower block marks end of an era
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2012
- Six years after AGCO moved to its new European Office Facility at Abbey Park Stoneleigh in the UK, the company's long-time office block at Banner Lane, Coventry was demolished by its current owners, Persimmon Homes on 8 July.
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Coventry was so well-known for its vehicle industries, it was very sad for the tower to come down. I live in Sedgley between Dudley and Wolverhampton and I could see the AGCO Tower from my local Hill Sedgley Beacon with binoculars, nearly 30 miles away
This is just one part of the destruction of many manufacturing plants in Coventry employing many 10s thousands of workers directly and hundreds of thousands indirectly in Coventry all the factories are now knocked down and housing estates or shopping. I and many of my passed and present relatives once worked there. This country just let it happen while Germany and other countries invested in people and industry. Madness.
Yes. During the 1980's we had an enormous amount of oil wealth that could have been used to invest -but instead Thatcher handed it over to private companies
I remember going to Banner Lane every year for my birthday when i was little. Watching the tractors being built used to amaze me.
Such a shame its just going to be turned into houses.
Agreed...sri lanka
Visited the site several times on works open days. In later years worked for Perkins Engines at one point part of MF
Not the same tractor nor company or engines, Perkins sold to caterpillar
Banner Lane and the Tower block is DEAD
Not much left here in the USA either, most all the dealers quit MF or AGCO quit them, nearest dealer over 100 miles away have to use ebay and the internet for parts for my MF 285
My farming family purchased many Massey Ferguson tractors over the years, TE20 , 35 , 65 , 135 , 165 , 290 , three 390s and even a 3070 made in French all bought brand new.
But now Banner lane is closed I'll never buy another Massey Ferguson tractor .
Harry Ferguson would go bloody mad he started it off with yes the loyal workforce, I know things change and progress is progress but it's a bloody shame.
The closure of this factory must have put loads of bloody good work people out of jobs and effected Coventry , it's a terrible shame .
All this country really has left is New Holland and JCB, maybe when we leave the bloody EU we might start manufacturing more products back in the UK .
Rest in peace Massey Ferguson Coventry...... Mickey Powell
That's not progress in my eyes.
Such a shame that Banner Lane Coventry factory closed but well its progress and the story continues.
What has been built in place of the factory
what names song ?
A housing estate and a row of shops, pathetic..
Jim
Cyprus ex heat treatment
The manufacturing jobs in Coventry didn't disappear, they simply went somewhere else. Served my apprenticeship
in Coventry when it was the hub of engineering employing thousands both directly and indirectly. Good luck turning it into a 'housing estate' probably 'student accommodation' earning their degrees at in useless pursuits but never
mind they are 'educated'! Greetings from the USA.
Francais ?
What a shame to Massey Ferguson thanks to dam AGCO
You can't blame AGCO for not finding the UK as being the best place to build their products. The rot set in during the 1970's and the stupid number of strikes leading to the next generation chassis investment being at Beauvais. It is a wonder that the Coventry plant was kept going for so long after the 1986 launch of the far superior 3000 series. They did invest somewhat in new models and transmissions at Banner Lane but you can't keep a late 1950's basic chassis design going forever. Having said that, similar tractors are still being made in Brazil and perhaps in India and Pakistan to this day [2021] which is amazing.
There is nothing left of the original Massey Ferguson site at Banner Lane now, the tower block was the last building to go.
Massey Ferguson not true - some of the fencing and the gatehouse and working man's club still three.
they should never have taken the tower block down
houses for people without a job, bit ironic really
They even sold off Deer Park, renamed Abbey Park, where they had their owned worldwide training centre and farm to lease the new building from the venture capitalists. They now own next to nothing and employ next to nobody. The UK operation is now just a sales and after sales force and has what appears to be zero influence on the products. This is not a success story for the UK or UK workers or industry. It marks the abject failure of UK industrial policy and of UK heavy and manufacturing industries. In 2021 this failure is being reinforced by a leadership whose policies are further decimating all kinds of businesses and whose leader once said, not in jest, "fu** business". Well he has and is succeeding on that one.
Nothing wrong with the MF products which are as good or better than they have ever been. It is not AGCO's fault that the UK is not favourable or is a desirable place to conduct industrial production or agriculture.
Coventry was once an engineering/manufacturing hub offering lifetime careers in various fields. Now? Everyone has a PhD is some useless discipline within various service industry.