The new - and often job-specific - programmes planned for 2008 (subject to validation) include mobile and interactive television development, motorsport and automobile design or electronics, strength and conditioning and toy design.

These techniques have been used in a number of fields, including automobile design, naval architecture, electronics, architecture, computers, and electricity distribution.

The result was a remarkably compact free-revving engine which, in the 1960s, was hailed by some as the next major step forward in automobile design.

It had more than 40 plants and employed more than 100,000 people, and pioneered many improvements in tooling and automobile design including closed all-weather bodies.

In time, they obtained two contracts for automobile design.