Britain's Prince William, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge look at a carbon firbre tub during a visit to McLaren Automotive's new Composites Technology Centre in Rotherham, Britain November 14, 2018. REUTERS/Andrew Yates/Pool
LONDON (Reuters) - British sports-car maker McLaren Automotive opened a 50-million pound northern English factory on Wednesday where it will make carbon fibre chassis, moving production from Austria in a decision initiated before Brexit.
McLaren, which will build around 4,500 top-end models at its factory in the southern English town of Woking this year, hopes to create more than 200 jobs when the new site in Sheffield reaches full production from 2020.
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