A Birmingham MP who fought against the closure of Dunlop Motorsport’s Birmingham site has described the Goodyear-owned company’s decision to end 125 years of manufacturing in Birmingham as “inexplicable.”
Speaking to TM, Jack Dromey, MP for Birmingham Erdington, said the 241 job losses at the Goodyear-owned firm’s site represented a bitter irony of a world leader in motorsport no longer manufacturing tyres domestically. He believes that as a result, the UK motorsport industry will now have to look abroad when sourcing its tyres. [caption id="attachment_229302" align="alignright"…
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