Gomba move on cards
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Gomba Holdings, the trading group which bought the company after the Scottish Development Agency was compelled to cease supporting the former Stonefield Vehicles company in 1980, is reported to be transferring production from Cumnock, Ayrshire, to Rochester, Kent. According to Gomba-Stonefield chief executive Michael Hendrie, the 50 workers at Cumnock have been assured that they have a future with the company. He would not comment on the Rochester move, but workers' representatives say that they would have to move with the company.
Workers also allege that no production vehicles have been built this year, and other local sources indicate that there has been little apparent activity at any of the three factories that the company leases from the SDA.
The SDA has offered to sell a 60,000sq ft factory, out of the 120,000 sq ft used by the company, to Gomba-Stonefield, but matters have been complicated by the serving of a writ on the SDA by Gomba in London.
The write mentions no sum of money, but it is inderstood that it alleges that the SDA failed to fulfil promises in connection with GKN and Borg-Warner.