The final Ford Transit has rolled off the production line at Ford’s factory in Southampton.
The Swaythling plant’s closure was revealed last October, alongside plans to shift production of the famous van to Turkey, where costs are “significantly lower” than in the UK, according to Ford.
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The Transit has been produced at Swaythling for a lot more than 40 years, during which time two million vans have been produced.
Ford says that the majority of the 531 workers employed by the factory have taken voluntary redundancy. 134 have been employed at Ford’s new automobile refurbishing plant at Swaythling, 41 have been redeployed to other areas of the firm’s service and some have taken early retirement.
The company has also shut down a stamping and tooling operation in Dagenham, affecting a additionally 750 jobs.
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