Rumours continue to swirl around the future of Jaguar's iconic Browns Lane car plant, the site that founder William Lyons opened in 1951, and which built the iconic XK120. The plant's 88 acres of manufacturing space, currently providing final assembly of all XK and XJ series cars is said to be about to close, with the workers there to be informed tomorrow by Ford managers.
Ford has, according to sources, decided to cut Jaguar's losses. The plant, along with the other two at Castle Bromwich and Halewood, have been on short time for several weeks already, in an attempt to cut over-production by some 15,000 vehicles.
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