The 500,000th engine has come off the production line at BMW Group’s Hams Hall engine plant.

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The engine, a two-litre petrol engine for a 1 series, marks the fourth anniversary of the start of production at the £400 million factory in January 2001.


Hams Hall’s plant director Harald Krüger said: “The plant’s contribution is set to increase with the supply of engines for BMW models and, in the future, also for the Mini.”


The BMW group continue investment in the factory to increase output and to develop facilities for the assembly of an additional new family of four-cylinder petrol engines that will be used in future Mini models.


The plant builds all four cylinder petrol engines for BMW assembly plants in Germany (Munich, Regensburg and Leipzig) and South Africa (Rosslyn and employs about 600 people. All production is exported.


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