Friday 24th March 2006

Jaguar sells Brown's Lane

Last link with historic site now severed

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Jaguar XK150: made at Brown's Lane

Jaguar has sold its Brown's Lane site, which it called home for half the 20th century. The buyer is Delamar, a construction supplier, which plans to build on it and create over 2,000 jobs.

The 500 Jaguar workers still at Brown's Lane, where car making stopped last year, will be transferred to other Jaguar manufacturing plants in the area. Jaguar also announced a new science and business park at its 155-acre site at Whitley, where it currently does R&D and employs some 2,000 workers. Jaguar has operated there since 1985.

The local council welcomed the move, saying that jobs, technologies and expertise were being created to help revive the local economy.

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".....Jaguar manufacturing pants"

Sorry Ted- but I thought Jaguar made cars!!

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mybrainhurts said:

What's up? Jaguars pant, don't they...? Somebody has to make the pants, or they wouldn't be Jaguars.... confused, as ever......

Does that mean they also do a "Belt & Braces" job????