The BRM cars produced in Bourne were put on display to the public at the workshops for the last time on 11th October 1981 before they were offered for sale by auction at Christie's salerooms in London. Hundreds turned up to see them and the queue stretched down Eastgate, ironically past Eastgate House which had been the lifetime home of Raymond Mays. The workshops were eventually sold in 1984 and converted for use as an auction saleroom for antiques, domestic chattels, plant and machinery, office equipment and commercial goods, (below) but in 2009, the owners decided that the site had become unsuitable for its present use and submitted a planning application to South Kesteven District Council the build a mix of small houses and flats on the land.