20 Things You Didn't Know About The World Is Not Enough (1999)

16. The Tube

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Motorola, Inc. was once a massive international conglomerate whose products could be found almost everywhere, not least as it specialised in wireless technology. Queen Elizabeth II opened a very distinctive-looking building to house offices and a distribution centre for Motorola on Thamesdown Drive in Swindon, Wiltshire in 1998.

The following year, the building appeared in The World Is Not Enough as the exterior of the King Industries oil pipeline control centre, no doubt because of “The Tube” that featured on the roof of the building, closely resembling an oil pipeline.

In reality, the tube carried utilities for the building and provided a barrier between the two sides of the building, separating the office section of the Motorola building from the distribution side.

Motorola sold the building to Vygon UK in 2009 and it was subsequently converted purely into a distribution centre in 2010, during which The Tube was entirely dismantled.

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