https://c5.me.uk/wiki/ 2026-11-02T23:44:12+00:00 https://c5.me.uk/wiki/ https://c5.me.uk/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.svg text/html 2026-11-01T00:04:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://c5.me.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=history:hoover_service&rev=1793491456&do=diff The Hoover service network Hoover plc assembled the C5 at Merthyr Tydfil, and its domestic-appliance service division was also the C5's exclusive service and parts organisation. This page draws on the confidential C5 Service Engineer Training Notes used at Hoover's text/html 2026-11-01T00:04:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://c5.me.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=history:netherlands&rev=1793491456&do=diff The C5 in the Netherlands A factual record of the Sinclair C5 in the Netherlands. The stories behind it are told on c5.me.uk. This page is a starting point. It will be expanded from Dutch newspaper articles, adverts and importer documents in the c5.me.uk collection. text/html 2026-11-01T00:04:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://c5.me.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=history:production&rev=1793491456&do=diff Production, suppliers and identification Where and how it was built * Assembler: Hoover plc, Merthyr Tydfil (Pentrebach), South Wales. C5s were built in building MP7, a separate new 40,000 sq ft hall connected to the main washing-machine factory by a tunnel. text/html 2026-11-01T00:04:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://c5.me.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=history:start&rev=1793491456&do=diff History of the Sinclair C5 Background (1970s–1983) * Clive Sinclair's interest in electric vehicles went back to a holiday job at Solartron in the late 1950s. In the early 1970s, at Sinclair Radionics, he had Chris Curry (later a co-founder of Acorn) look into EV motors, and they built a thin motor driving a child's scooter. Calculators then took priority.