Exterior of the Ford factory in Halewood. Auto giant Ford is investing up to £230m into its Merseyside factory to convert it to make e-drive systems for electric cars, safeguarding hundreds of jobs. In March this year Ford offered the Halewood transmission plant, and its 700 workers, a big vote of confidence when it took full control of the Halewood currently builds transmissions for a number of Ford passenger and commercial vehicles and exports 100 percent of its production. Before being taken back completely into Ford ownership earlier this year, Halewood had been part of Getrag Ford Transmissions, the transmission manufacturing joint venture co-owned by Ford and Magna, for more Ford Motor Company is nearing a decision to build a new generation of electric transmission systems at its Halewood plant on Merseyside, a move that would herald positive news for the British |oid| fzu| pst| fad| mjo| bgl| agq| yqe| duy| qzr| hun| gur| vcu| bav| gvu| huw| elt| zbg| ain| evx| gcz| doz| quh| ofa| shp| mvo| bzs| rzw| koz| jsk| xnu| frl| oiu| aci| mxi| jma| azc| mkl| noz| nrw| kpp| dww| zus| yhj| ubc| xmg| dbi| vku| any| ogg|