Once one of Exmouth’s largest employers, Pankhurst Engineering, closed in September 2008.
![Pankhurst Engineering](https://exmouthhistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150215-IMG_7648-1024x768.jpg)
The Littleham Industrial Estate factory at its height employed around 300 workers. Plans were submitted in 2013 to use the site for 50 residential units, which included 20 affordable homes.
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The factory made farm equipment and special dies, tools and jigs related to injection moulding.
![Pankhurst Engineering site at the end of 2018](https://exmouthhistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/20181230-1000327-1024x768.jpg)