Production at Jaguar to halt for a week

Sep 25 2008

Jaguar

Production at Jaguar Land Rover’s Halewood plant on Merseyside is to cease for a week at the end of next month, it was announced today.

Falling demand for new vehicles has already led to a recent series of non-production days at Halewood and at the company’s West Midlands plants of Castle Bromwich and Solihull.

Today, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) said Halewood production would close down for the week beginning Monday October 27.

A JLR spokesman said: “This is half-term holiday week and, traditionally, this has always been a week when production ceased at Castle Bromwich and Solihull, although not at Halewood.

“The halt in production is to try to match production to demand.”

Formerly owned by Ford, Jaguar and Land Rover were bought by Tata Motors of India for around £1.15 billion earlier this year.