Production at Jaguar’s Halewood plant on Merseyside is to cease for a week at the end of October on gloomier demand prospects.

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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 (Land Rover). Workers won’t lose pay and will be given other tasks to perform.


A Jaguar spokesman told just-auto: “The halt in production is to try to match production to demand.”


See also: UK: Land Rover cuts to avoid “stockpiling”

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