SELOC staging review
Published 25 July 2026

Sixty years of Lotus at Hethel

Lotus moved to Hethel in 1966 and marked sixty years there with a family day in 2026. The factory and test track are the obvious landmarks. If you’ve visited, though, you may remember a particular car, a conversation or the drive there more vividly than anything on the itinerary.

Approaching the Lotus factory at Hethel in 2025
Approaching the Lotus factory at Hethel in 2025. Michael Garlick / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

That’s the part of the story club members can help preserve. If you have photos from a visit, put a date and a few names beside them. If you still have the paperwork from collecting a car, keep it with the history. A note about what was happening that day can make an otherwise anonymous picture useful.

The photo shows the approach to the factory in 2025.