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History
The ‘Company’; its roots, products and services Sparshott Fabrications Ltd was founded in the year 2000 as a result of the collaboration between two men with common interests, but from quite different engineering backgrounds.
Ray Heasman is a civil engineer with a prestigious record of successful projects and is the chairman of Spar-tec Industries as well as being founder and Chairman of the Gramm Group of Companies. Ray has a keen interest in motorsport and is a regular visitor to Silverstone Circuit.
Bob Sparshott is chief executive of Spar-Tec Industries and has been involved in the engineering side of motorsport for over 30 years. It was during this time that Bob covered most aspects of the motorsport business. Bob’s career began with basic training working for Team Lotus Ltd and he was fortunate during this period to have worked with all-time motor racing legends Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Mario Andretti and many others. During the 70’s and 80’s Bob ran successful F1, F2 and F3000 teams, culminating in the 1985 F3000 drivers championship which Christian Danner convincingly won driving a March 85B F3000 car. Bob’s original engineering company - B.S. Fabrications Ltd was renowned as the manufacturer of the best racing suspension components in the industry; continuing in this vein, Spar-tec Industries is a small company, employing only first class tradesmen, hand picked for their skills and dedication to the pursuit of excellence.
1) Design and manufacture from client's brief.
2) Fabrication /alloy steels/ titanium/aluminium / Stainless Steel/ Crome Moly.
3) Machining /CNC/ manual
4) Specialised welding processes/Titanium
5) Manufacture and sales of custom built welding purge chambers/systems
6) Assembly, sub-assembly of competition cars
7) Restoration of Grand Prix cars
Specific projects completed |
(note - client’s names withheld for confidentiality) |
1) Design and build, assembly/welding fixtures for Indy car front and rear fabricated uprights
2) Manufacture ‘complete’ to client’s drawings - front and rear Indy car uprights
3) Manufacture complete Indy car ‘Speedway’ wishbones
4) Design, build, test and commission (27 cu ft) purge chamber for Aerospace company
5) Manufacture tooling for aluminium radiator tanks (to client’s drawing)
6) Manufacture weld and test aluminium radiator tank assemblies
7) Design and manufacture specialised door hinge assemblies for V.I.P. armoured Jaguar Sovereign
8) Design and manufacture fabricated aluminium uprights for prototype road sports car
9) Design and manufacture reinforced suspension components for armoured Mercedes and Rolls Royce cars
10) The complete restoration of Lord Alexander Hesketh’s 308B-2 1975 Dutch Grand Prix winning Grand Prix car. (Driven to victory by James Hunt, the car can be viewed at the Donnington Grand Prix Collection, Castle Donnington, Derbyshire).