The DefenceIntegration.org team couldn’t help but test drive the new Freelander and Defender around the many miles of private, secure testing ground track as pictured below
Above Jon Masding and Anika from DefenceIntegration.org. There were new generation armed troop carriers pictured below with Ankit Dalal, from SAE-UK.
An interesting stand at the show at DVD Millbrook was the company Caparo, we met them also at our stand at Millennium Point, Birmingham earlier in the year. The Defence Integration.org team met with Stuart Scarborough, Sales Director, and ‘The Major’ from Caparo. Their company is one of the largest privately owned business in the UK with a turnover of approximately £1.5bn a year. The activities of Caparo are manifold, and include steels, fastenings, vehicle and design activities and many more in sites spread around the world. They consume many of their own products and even build sports cars which they had on show at Autosport 2007 also attended by SAE-UK.
In all, the DVD exhibition is an extraordinary place with 170 companies showing products and 200 exhibitors. What sets this event apart is not the size but the opportunity for attendees to drive the vehicles around secure private road. This unique event goes in our diaries for 2008.
SAE-UK thanks TRW Marketing and Communications Manager, James Godwin shown here centre on the TRW Conekt stand for bringing this event to our attention and acknowldeges the input of Jon Masding, SAE-UK Publishing Consultant in organising our attendance. It seemed as though we had no sooner stepped off the plane from the Paris Air Show than we were heading up the M1 to DVD. All in all, another memorable, incident packed week for the SAE-UK Team.
