Companies using the park include Fiat Group Automobiles, Centrica, Hibu, Electrolux, GSK, Mars Confectionery, Akzo Nobel, Virgin Media, O2, AxFlow UK, the datacentre operator Network-i and OKI Printing Solutions.

Sir Percival Perry, who had effectively established the British operations of the Ford Motor Company and who had been appointed Assistant Controller of the UK government's Agricultural Machinery Department during the war,[12] and Sir Noel Mobbs, led the group of investors who acquired the depot, establishing the Slough Trading Company Limited and Reduced.

Shared facilities were provided for workforce and employers, including a fire station, restaurant,[13] shops and banks, a large community centre (1937) and the Slough Industrial Health Service (1947).

[15] As the trading estate grew despite the depression of the 1920s and 1930s, people were attracted from all over the country to come and find work in Slough but the fast increase in population resulted in a shortage of housing.

From the outside, the houses looked like an army barracks, but inside they were spacious and comfortable – with three bedrooms, a bathroom, a big kitchen and a living room.

From the late 1950s the estate became home to Gerry Anderson's AP Films, producing a string of successful puppet series for ATV.

[18] As of 2018 the plant is being partially demolished for replacement by the Slough Multifuel facility, which will generate about 50 MW 'through burning waste-derived fuels made from various sources'.

The poem bemoans the loss of the area's rural character, and pillories English society's increasing consumerism and the sweatshop conditions caused by large-scale industrial development.