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26/07/2013
Ford Closes Southampton Transit Plant
The Ford factory in Southampton has produced its final Transit van and staff have finished their last shift, as the site is to close.
Some two million Transit vans have been produced by 500 staff at the Swaythling plant in the forty years since in opened.
Production of the van will now move to Turkey, where according to Ford production costs are "significantly lower".
The company have said that all staff from the plant have either been redeployed, take voluntary redundancy or left under early retirement.
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Some two million Transit vans have been produced by 500 staff at the Swaythling plant in the forty years since in opened.
Production of the van will now move to Turkey, where according to Ford production costs are "significantly lower".
The company have said that all staff from the plant have either been redeployed, take voluntary redundancy or left under early retirement.
(MH/CD)
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