UK firms collaborating to produce thousands more ventilators for the NHS say they are just days away from putting prototypes into production coronavirus
His team of engineers has developed a prototype in their Worcestershire workshops which they presented to the government on Friday.
"I'm confident we can build them in a short time and in quite high volume… I'd estimate at a thousand a day," Mr Grey added. "We think we have solved all the difficult bits, we are just making the last bits of a pneumatic timer now which hopefully will be ready in a few hours. If that works we can take all the electronics off it and it will just run on oxygen supply so it is very simple."The McLaren F1 team is part of another consortium alongside HVM Catapult also looking to mass produce ventilators very soon.
A spokesperson told Sky News:"The designs of a preferred solution are due to be released imminently and when they are, the consortium stands ready to begin production on these immediately.""The response to the government's call from across the manufacturing community has been extraordinary," they added.
Coventry-based RDM Automotive normally produce driverless pod cars but have also asked their engineers to focus 100% of their energies on this mission that is seen as vital in tackling coronavirus.
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