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Vauxhall to build new proving ground
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• Vauxhall Motors Ltd. has just started work on the construction of a comprehensive and up-to-date vehicle proving ground on a 600acre site in mid-Bedfordshire.
The selected site incorporates 200-ft hill spurs, allowing the building of hilly, undulating test routes, and a wide enough expanse of flat ground to take a two-mile, five-lane high-speed circuit. Other facilities will include a one-mile course of Belgian pave, .a one-mile, four-lane straight and level track with banked loops at each end allowing entry and exit speeds up to 100 mph,noise-generating surfaces on an adjoining 18ft-wide track and a 1.5-mile cross-country course, including a section with raised concrete blocks for truck testing with short steep gradients and dirt and gravel-road sections.