In an old cigarette factory, the last to have closed in the UK, the future of cleaner air is in production.
Before the pandemic, Wrightbus, a company best known for designing and producing a new Routemaster bus for London, was on the brink of collapse.
Laid low by over-expansion abroad, not enough bus orders from councils in austerity Britain, and in-fighting within the founding Wright family, Wrightbus was within days of closing the doors for ever.
Its unlikely saviour was Jo Bamford. The heir to the JCB empire is — like his father Lord Bamford, the billionaire chairman of the diggers group — one of the greatest advocates for the future of hydrogen in British industry.
Hydrogen, the lightest element, releases abundant energy when
