{"id":92028,"date":"2026-07-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/?p=92028"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:25:08","slug":"seloc-editorial-sixty-years-of-lotus-at-hethel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/seloc-editorial-sixty-years-of-lotus-at-hethel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty years of Lotus at Hethel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019ve visited, though, you may remember a particular car, a conversation or the drive there more vividly than anything on the itinerary.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/05\/Hethel%2C_Approaching_the_Lotus_car_factory_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7970677.jpg\" alt=\"Approaching the Lotus factory at Hethel in 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><figcaption>Approaching the Lotus factory at Hethel in 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hethel%2C_Approaching_the_Lotus_car_factory_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7970677.jpg\">Michael Garlick \/ Geograph<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The photo shows the approach to the factory in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small stories that make sixty years at Hethel worth recording.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[941,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage","category-seloc-editorial-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92091,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92028\/revisions\/92091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}