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Trafford Park is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, opposite Salford Quays on the southern side of the Manchester Ship Canal, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) southwest of Manchester city centre and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) north of Stretford. Until the late 19th century, it was the ancestral home of the Trafford family, who sold it to financier Ernest Terah Hooley in 1896. Occupying an area of 4.7 square miles (12 km2), it was the first planned industrial estate in the world, and remains the largest in Europe well over a century later.

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  • Trafford Park est un quartier de Trafford, dans le Grand Manchester, en Angleterre. Il fait face à Salford Quays, au sud du canal maritime de Manchester, et est situé à 5,5 km au sud-ouest du centre-ville de Manchester et 2,1 km au nord de Stretford. Jusqu'à la fin du XIXe siècle, c'est là que se trouve la maison d'origine de la famille , qui est ensuite vendue à l'entrepreneur Ernest Terah Hooley en 1896. S'étalant sur une surface de 12 km², c'était le premier parc industriel du monde et reste la plus vaste en Europe. Trafford Park est presque complètement entouré par de l'eau. Le Bridgewater Canal en forme les limites sud-est et sud-ouest, et le canal maritime de Manchester, qui ouvre en 1894, en est la frontière nord-est et nord-ouest. Hooley souhaitait développer le transport maritime dans le quartier, mais le canal met longtemps avant d'attendre le trafic escompté, et c'est pourquoi les premiers temps le parc est utilisé pour des activités de loisir comme le golf ou le polo. La est la première entreprise majeure à s'y installer, et en 1903 elle emploie la moitié des 12 000 travailleurs du parc. Trafford Park est intimement lié aux usines MetroVick, un fournisseur important de matériel au cours des deux guerres mondiales, qui produit le moteur Rolls-Royce Merlin utilisé par le Spitfire et le Lancaster. En 1945, jusqu'à 75 000 ouvriers travaillent dans le parc. Ce nombre commence à décliner au cours des années 1960 à la suite de certaines délocalisations. On compte 50 000 travailleurs en 1967, et le déclin se poursuit tout au long des années 1970, et s'accélère même, les bateaux modernes étant trop larges pour passer par le canal. On ne compte plus que 15 000 ouvriers en 1976, et l'activité industrielle disparait pratiquement du parc dans les années 1980. En 1961, le cosmonaute russe Youri Gagarine était l'hôte de l'usine de Trafford Park à l'occasion de son passage à Manchester. Le Trafford Park Urban Development Corporation, créé en 1987, a renversé la tendance. Durant les 11 années de son existence, le parc attire 1 000 entreprises, créant 28 299 nouveaux emplois et générant 1,759 milliard de livres sterling d'investissements privés. En 2008 1 400 entreprises sont implantées dans le parc, employant approximativement 35 000 personnes. (fr)
  • Trafford Park is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, opposite Salford Quays on the southern side of the Manchester Ship Canal, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) southwest of Manchester city centre and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) north of Stretford. Until the late 19th century, it was the ancestral home of the Trafford family, who sold it to financier Ernest Terah Hooley in 1896. Occupying an area of 4.7 square miles (12 km2), it was the first planned industrial estate in the world, and remains the largest in Europe well over a century later. Trafford Park is almost entirely surrounded by water; the Bridgewater Canal forms its southeastern and southwestern boundaries, and the Manchester Ship Canal, which opened in 1894, its northeastern and northwestern. Hooley's plan was to develop the Ship Canal frontage, but the canal was slow to generate the predicted volume of traffic, so in the early days the park was largely used for leisure activities such as golf, polo and boating. British Westinghouse was the first major company to move in, and by 1903 it was employing about half of the 12,000 workers then employed in the park, which became one of the most important engineering facilities in Britain. Trafford Park was a major supplier of materiel in the First and Second World Wars, producing the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines used to power both the Spitfire and the Lancaster. At its peak in 1945, an estimated 75,000 workers were employed in the park. Employment began to decline in the 1960s as companies closed in favour of newer, more efficient plants elsewhere. By 1967 employment had fallen to 50,000, and the decline continued throughout the 1970s, when difficult economic conditions were pushing up unemployment nationally. The new generation of container ships was too large for the Manchester Ship Canal, which led to a further decline in Trafford Park's fortunes. The workforce had fallen to 15,000 by 1976, and by the 1980s - in the wake of another recession - industry had virtually disappeared from the park. The Trafford Park Urban Development Corporation, formed in 1987, reversed the estate's decline. In the 11 years of its existence, the park attracted 1,000 companies, generating 28,299 new jobs and £1.759 billion of private-sector investment. As of 2008, there were 1,400 companies within Trafford Park, employing an estimated 35,000 people. Despite a decline in these numbers soon afterwards due to a fresh recession, the area was recovering well a decade later with economic growth re-established and unemployment reduced. (en)
  • Trafford Park är ett område i Greater Manchester i nordvästra England, beläget på sydsidan av Manchesterkanalen. Ford Motor Companys första europeiska sammansättningsanläggning byggdes upp 1911 i Trafford Park Denna England-relaterade geografiartikel saknar väsentlig information. Du kan hjälpa till genom att lägga till den. (sv)
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  • Trafford Park är ett område i Greater Manchester i nordvästra England, beläget på sydsidan av Manchesterkanalen. Ford Motor Companys första europeiska sammansättningsanläggning byggdes upp 1911 i Trafford Park Denna England-relaterade geografiartikel saknar väsentlig information. Du kan hjälpa till genom att lägga till den. (sv)
  • Trafford Park est un quartier de Trafford, dans le Grand Manchester, en Angleterre. Il fait face à Salford Quays, au sud du canal maritime de Manchester, et est situé à 5,5 km au sud-ouest du centre-ville de Manchester et 2,1 km au nord de Stretford. Jusqu'à la fin du XIXe siècle, c'est là que se trouve la maison d'origine de la famille , qui est ensuite vendue à l'entrepreneur Ernest Terah Hooley en 1896. S'étalant sur une surface de 12 km², c'était le premier parc industriel du monde et reste la plus vaste en Europe. (fr)
  • Trafford Park is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, opposite Salford Quays on the southern side of the Manchester Ship Canal, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) southwest of Manchester city centre and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) north of Stretford. Until the late 19th century, it was the ancestral home of the Trafford family, who sold it to financier Ernest Terah Hooley in 1896. Occupying an area of 4.7 square miles (12 km2), it was the first planned industrial estate in the world, and remains the largest in Europe well over a century later. (en)
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