Mira Limited (00402570): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2015-07-14
- Administrators
- William James Wright, Christopher Robert Pole
- Administrators' firm
- KPMG
- Formerly
- Motor Industry Research Association(The)
- Incorporated
- 1946-01-01
- Location
- Birmingham
- Industry
- 72190 Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering
Why it went into administration
- Pension deficit
From the administrators' statement
The Company operated as an automotive testing and research facility and was incorporated tn January 1946 It provided proving ground and other vehicle testing facilities, utllsed by motor manufacturers for the development of new vehicles, as well as the provision of automotive based research and development facilities
It traded primarily from its freehold site near Nuneaton in Warwickshire It also operated from two smaller leasehold sites Quatro Park in Basildon and another site near Los Gallardos in Spain
MIRA employed approximately 500 staff and Group turnover was £50 million
Administrators' statement of proposals (2015-08-25) · Companies House register