The BMW Group has invested some GBP 30 million in the Plant since 2005, some 1,000 associates building engines in Hams Hall with the most advanced highlights in technology. These include innovative valve control based on the VALVETRONIC valve management system developed by the BMW Group and ensuring optimum power and performance in the four-cylinder on the MINI One, the MINI Cooper and the MINI Cooper Clubman. A further outstanding achievement is twin-scroll technology ensuring an immediate response of the turbocharged power unit in the MINI Cooper S and the MINI Cooper S Clubman. Hams Hall delivers up to 800 MINI engines a day to Oxford just-in-time and just-insequence for maximum efficiency in final assembly.
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The roots of the new MINI Clubman go far back into the past: In its concept this third member of the MINI brand family now joining the

MINI Hatch and the MINI Convertible follows the examples of the Morris Mini Traveller and the Austin Mini Countryman built back in the 1960s, as well as the MINI Clubman Estate entering the market a decade later.
Through the merger of BMC and Leyland in 1968, the new company established in the process was called British Leyland, the separation of Austin and Morris models being lifted in 1969 and all Minis now being jointly marketed under the name “Mini”. Production of the Morris Mini Traveller and the Austin Mini Countryman both built previously as equal partners continued until November 1969, when the Mini Clubman Estate entered the market as the new model. This was also the first time that the name “Clubman” appeared as the brand's nomenclature.