delusionofgrandeur

According to the BBC he Ford Motor Company has said in a letter to it’s employees at their Southampton UK plant that future Ford Transit production was “under review” and may be cut in half and/or moved abroad.

Ford at Southampton employs about 1350 people and produces over 70,000 Ford Transit vans a year.

The Transit has long been the staple van in use for light haulage and multi-drop deliveries in the UK beating off most competition and having a reputation pretty-good reliability in the face of constant ‘misuse’.

Ford has been making the Transit at Southampton since 1971 and is largely supplied with body panel pressing from Frod at Dagenham so I’d guess there could be a possibility of jobs being at risk there too. Aparently, the current rumour suggests 50% of production could be moved to Turkey.

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