Company News...
 

December 2007 - Rapid Prototyping emerges from the Caged Design Office

Caged have invested in the latest Rapid Prototyping Technology.

The Elite uses super strong ABSplus to create parts or assemblies up to 305x203x203mm. Parts can be sanded, milled, drilled, painted and even electro-plated. We can print perfect working models directly from your CAD - in 48 hours!!

From uprights, to inlets, to manifolds to HVAC - nothing need ever be left to the imagination again……

October 2007 - New CNC Kit installed in the Caged machine shop

The busy Caged machine shop is on the uppers with a £130,000 investment in new machinery.

Caged have invested £130,000 in new CNC machinery to furnish a new contract amongst others. Our all new Dugard.com line up features 2 new Eagle 200 lathes with Hydrafeed Servo barfeeds for astonishing cycle speeds, along with a new Eagle CNC 760 vertical mill with full bed Microloc work holding system for super quick and .0001mm accurate fixturing. This brings the machine shop machine shop numbers to an excellent 6 machines in total.

Along side our Solidworks Premium CAD system we have the latest CAM software allowing full 3D vertical machining from all 3D CAD formats.

Small volume fast turn around a speciality!!

January 2007 - Matty's Back

Matt Elvin rejoins Caged from RML where he was a race team fabricator. Bored of travelling the world with the Chevrolet World Touring Car Team he longed to come back to the Caged team! Fabricator par excellence, Matty is responsible for body shell prep and looks after bespoke customer projects.

December 2006 - Caged Moves

Caged has moved it's roll cage production and low volume fabrication to a new site in Frome.

Unit 4, Ashton Park, Handlemaker Road, Frome, Somerset, BA11 4RW

Full Caterham production is underway..

Click on the images for a video link to each process - and yes they are in real time...

Upper engine bay chassis rail being laser cut.

Side panel sub assembly being robot welded

April 2006

First Caterham chassis ready for final welding in the robot cell

March 2006 - The Robot Arrives

Clever Trevor the robot welder had taken station in the main workshop and is currently learning how to weld the Caterham chassis's.

March  2006 - The Tube Laser Arrives

After 2 weeks of travelling and commissioning the tube laser is finally installed.

January 2006 - Iain Webster Joins as Technical Director

Iain joins the team from Caterham Cars where he served 15 years. Iain was in the engineering department and will be overseeing the Caterham contract

December 2005 - Caged Moves
Caged have moved to larger premises.

October 2005 - Caged wins Caterham Cars Chassis contract
Caterham Cars have entered into an agreement with existing supplier, Caged, to provide the company with a next generation hi-tech chassis manufacturing process for the legendary Seven sportscar. 

From March 2006, Caged will manufacture all the current Seven chassis variants from their UK based Wiltshire facility.  They will undertake the metric based development and build program using the latest CAD design technology, and manufacture utilising state of the art computer controlled tube and sheet laser cutters and robotic welding cells. Caged predict delivering chassis’ of unparalleled accuracy and at a level of quality that the Caterham brand demands. Caged has been responsible for manufacturing the Seven’s F.I.A. approved roll cages and road-going roll-over bars since 2002. 

Announcing the partnership, Caterham Cars Managing Director, Ansar Ali, explained: “We’re an engineering-led business, and the partnership with Caged yet again signals how committed we are to evolving, and moving the Seven forward.” 

He added: “Caged have made a major capital investment in order to provide us and our customers with a chassis that enhances the high quality character of the current design. Importantly, working with Caged also means we’re confident that we have a supply partner that offers us the flexibility a business such as ours requires.”

 Current chassis builder, Arch Motors, will continue to support Caterham’s healthy aftermarket and motorsport car park for the existing chassis. More than 11,500 Sevens have been built since 1973, with an estimated 90 percent still in existence.

 The new agreement further strengthens Caterham’s commitment to a British supply chain wherever possible. “It is so easy to look abroad. However, the soul of this business is about engineering excellence – British engineering excellence – and the pedigree of manufacturing skill on our doorstep. The partnership with Caged is an exciting one for our customers and the business going forward.

 Britain remains extremely competitive as a technology biased manufacturing base and the corner stone of our new contract with Caged is an investment in excess of £500,000 in modern day engineering technology.”

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October 2005 - Martin Brooks in Phoenix wins RGB class A
9th October sees Martin Brooks win the RGB class A championship. A brace of champions for Ian Gray's 'Stuart Taylor Motorsport', and vindication for the work both STM and Caged have put into the '05 chassis. As you would expect we have not been resting on the laurels won, and room has already been made for next years honours as the revised and improved '06 chassis waits in the wings for testing.

September 2005 - Tim Gray in Phoenix wins RGB class C
9th September see Tim Gray win the RGB class C championship with 2 races to go!! Hearty congratulations to Tim- top racer and top bloke!!

June 2005 - Rob Cheesebrough joins the team
Rob joins us from SD, having worked in their SVO department developing, and installing weld in cages. Rob brings yet more extensive experience to the team at Caged.

March 2005 - Phoenix tests at Mallory
9th March saw the first dry test of the new Phoenix chassis. The 2005 Phoenix of Martin Brooks lapped Mallory in 49.7sec  - that's just 0.3 seconds shy of last years RGB lap record - and this was on his second lap!! Do you think he can go faster!!

Brooks said 'I was by no means comfortable. The track was cold, brakes weren't bedded, and it was my initial trial setup. But, coming OUT of Gerrards at 117mph kind of makes you feel pretty special in the new car.'

January 2004 - GTM Cars Libra Suspension
GTM Cars took delivery of their first revised suspension setup by Caged.

Geometry by MG Rover Motorsport Department and turned into reality by Caged, as you would expect the new units are lighter and stiffer than the old offering.

September 2004 - The Caged Phoenix has Risen
From the ashes of on old chassis comes the unbelievable new Stuart Taylor Phoenix chassis manufactured by Caged. An incredible 20kg lighter than the old box section chassis and nearly twice as stiff.

Many a person said it couldn't be done - check out the projects page to see how we did it!

March 2004 - Have Van will Travel
We have a van, we have a man .... allegedly .... and therefore can now collect and return customers' cars to Westbury.

We would expect to a journey to cost a minimum charge of £30 (this covers the trailer hire) and thereafter 0.60p per mile.

No more excuses, get that car booked in!!

February 2004 - Goldtrack gets Caged!!!
Calum Lockie's 968 Club Sport gets a rear roll bar from Caged - see the Projects section for a full report.

Westfield Sportscars stock Caged products
Caged are delighted to announce their ongoing partnership with Westfield Sportscars has moved on again! The full external race cage as seen fitted by Caged and as fitted to Andy Lyall, Harvey Nott and Dave Higgs' cars will soon be available from Westfield direct.

February 2004 - Martin Cranton arrives!!

Local engineer Martin Cranton has moved to Caged from nearby Spectra coachbuilders. Working on trailer units for Formula One teams and outside broadcast companies Martin adds yet more skill and expertise to the fast expanding Caged workforce. Prior to working at Spectra, Martin was part of the team at Marcos Cars - now Marcos Engineering building chassis.

December 2003 - Matthew Elvin Joins the team as Workshop Manager
Matt Elvin joins Caged from Bob Salisbury Engineering in Silverstone. Matt worked at SD starting his career working on the bending machinery before progressing to become one of their leading design engineers manufacturing and fitting cages to customers cars. Moving to Motorsport Developments Matt built the Hyundai WRC3 bodyshells before moving as a welder and fabricator for Bob Salisbury Engineering. 

October 2003 - Adam Reeves joins the team as Sales and Marketing Director
Having worked at SD for 5 years, Adam left his position there as Sales Operations Manager and worked as a Corporate Sales Executive for Snetterton race circuit in Norfolk selling corporate driving days, conferences and race day hospitality. Within three months, Adam was transferred to Silverstone Circuit, to take up the position of Corporate Sales Team Leader, looking after the corporate sales team for the Home of the British Grand Prix. After two and a half years Adam has joined the team to look after all sales and marketing.

August 2003 - Caged comfirms Autosport 2004
Caged have booked stand 6350 at the Autosport International Show at the NEC in Birmingham and would love to see you there! Come and meet us face to face and we can talk through all your roll cage, motorsport fabrication and bodyshell prep needs ....... and perhaps furnish you with a coffee .... or something stronger !

January 2003 - Caterham Cars on board
So impressed with the setup at our Westbury production facility, Caterham Cars have moved their entire supply of rollover protection for both road and race cars to Caged.

October 2002 - Caged established - a legend is born!!!
Phil Squance and Kevin Milne establish Caged, the new name in rollover protection for motorsport and other applications.