| Jaguar Land Rover Halewood | |
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 The plant (with the legend "Jaguar Cars") in February 2006 | |
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| Built | 2 October 1963 |
| Location | Halewood,Merseyside, England |
| Coordinates | 53°20′54″N2°49′58″W / 53.34833°N 2.83278°W /53.34833; -2.83278 |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Products | Automobiles |
| Employees | 4,000 |
| Owner | Ford of Britain[citation needed] |
Jaguar Land Rover Halewood is aJaguar Land Rover factory plant inHalewood,Merseyside, England, and forms the major part of the factory complex in Halewood which is shared withFord of Britain[citation needed] who manufacture transmissions at the site, and who opened the site in 1962 as theirHalewood Body & Assembly plant.
The Halewood plant was originally opened by Ford on 2 October 1963, to build the then small-saloonFord Anglia. Reflecting pressure on Ford of Britain's principal plant atDagenham, the Halewood plant was also used for assembling theFord Corsair between the model's 1964 launch and 1969.[1]
More recently the plant has been associated with theFord Escort - which replaced the Anglia in 1967. TheCapri was also assembled at Halewood from its introduction in 1969. The introduction of theFiesta in 1976 saw Ford of Europe restructure its entire European operations: all Capri production was moved to theCologne plant in Germany, whilst Halewood was developed to become (until 1998 along withSaarlouis) Ford's mainEuropean production facility for the Escort and derivativeFord Orion models.
The Escort was phased out by Ford in 2000, but the van version of the Escort remained in production at Halewood on a small scale until 2002 when it was replaced by the Turkish builtTransit Connect.
In 1997, Ford announced plans to replace the Escort with the more radically styledFord Focus. Furthermore,Ford of Europe announced European production of the Focus would only be carried out atSaarlouis, Germany andValencia, Spain fuelling rumours that Halewood was due to be closed by Ford. However,Jaguar Cars, owned at the time by Ford, was developing a new mid-sized saloon model which was loosely based on theFord Mondeo. Ford decided that production of this model, theJaguar X-Type, would commence at Halewood from 2001 onwards.[2]
In 2007, Halewood commenced production of the second generationLand Rover Freelander model, Freelander 2, and a dirt track test facility was constructed at Halewood specifically for Freelander 2 and subsequent Land Rover models.
In March 2008, Ford finalised a deal to sell Jaguar and Land Rover toTata Motors, part of the Indian-basedTata Group, one of the world's largest manufacturers ofcommercial vehicles. Under the terms of the deal, Ford retained partial ownership of Halewood's transmission plant which it originally operated in collaboration withGetrag, but in March 2021 Ford bought Getrag (now Magma PT) out of the venture,[3] bringing Ford back as a major owner of the Halewood complex.
On 15 July 2009,Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced that it would cease production of the X-Type at the end of 2009, with the loss of 300 jobs, and have a three-week shut down between September and December of that year.
On 11 March 2010, the UK Government announced a £27 million grant was to be made available to JLR for the production of an all-new model, theRange Rover Evoque, subject to the condition it is manufactured at Halewood. In July 2011, production of the Range Rover Evoque started. The Evoque became a best-seller, and was critically acclaimed for its concept-car-like styling. Soon, JLR raised the number of employees to 3,000, due to the high demand for the Evoque. In early 2012, JLR announced that they would employ an additional 1,000 staff for Halewood, to meet demand for the Evoque. In August of that year, the plant switched to 24-hour running in order to meet demand.[4]
On 19 June 2014, JLR announced an investment of £200M at Halewood, enabling the launch in 2014 of the newLand Rover Discovery Sport, the first member of an all-new family of Discovery vehicles.[5]
On 16 September 2024, JLR announced an investment of £500M at Halewood in order to upgrade the factory for electric vehicle production.[6]
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