Millbrook Proving Ground

General information

Millbrook Group provides vehicle test, validation and engineering services to customers in the automotive, transport, tyre, petrochemical, defence and security industries. It is independent and impartial in everything it does.

At its Proving Ground in the UK, Millbrook has 70km of varied test tracks, including hill routes, high speed areas and challenging off road courses. Its professional drivers and engineers perform repeatable tests on all types of vehicles in a secure and safe environment. It has a range of test facilities for components and full vehicles. These include engine dynamometers, environmental chambers, crash laboratories and advanced emissions chassis dynamometers.

Millbrook’s winter test facility, Test World, which is based in Northern Finland, specialises in vehicle and tyre testing in winter conditions. The team in Lapland are experts at preparing snow and ice tracks for repeatable testing and at performing development and type approval tests on tyres. The world’s first indoor winter test facilities make testing on natural snow available twelve months of the year.

Millbrook engineers specialist vehicle conversions. These range from new versions of existing platforms, such as estate cars, to armoured solutions and complex electronics installations. It conducts impartial vehicle assessments and develops class-leading vehicle dynamics improvements. Millbrook helps Vehicle Manufacturers manage complex bills of materials and launch new models.

Millbrook Technology Park is home to innovative companies who benefit from access to Millbrook’s testing facilities and expertise, forming an integral part of the UK’s vehicle technology cluster. Millbrook Venues host exceptional vehicle-related events for up to 7,000 people.

Millbrook’s employees are passionate about safety, customer service and technical excellence; they take pride in delivering exactly what their customers want, whether that is a vehicle test, engineered solution or smooth-running conference. Millbrook develops its people so that they remain at the leading edge of their specialist fields and contribute to the development of future regulations.

All of this combines to make the Millbrook Group an integral part of the industries it serves and an ideal partner at any stage in the development and launch of the vehicles of tomorrow.