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The Browns Lane plant in Coventry, England was built as a Second World War shadow factory run by the Daimler Company. In 1951 it was leased by Jaguar Cars and remained the company's home until 2005. It was the site of all Jaguar production until 1998, when production of the Jaguar S-Type commenced at Castle Bromwich Assembly in Birmingham ...
Coundon was one of the few villages that are now part of Coventry to be mentioned in the Domesday Book (1086). [3] Holy Trinity Church had land in Coundon from at least the early 14th century. In 1410–11 Coundon was divided into Old, or Little Coundon, and New Coundon and it was part of the Knightlow Hundred until 1451.
Jaguar. Browns Lane plant. Coventry, England: Jaguar: 1951 2005 Assembly halls demolished. Small part retained as the Jaguar Museum until 2012, until its subsequent demolition. Site now occupied by a housing estate. Lago Alberto Assembly: Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City: 1930s 2002 Lansing Metal Center: Lansing, Michigan: 1952 2006 Leeds Assembly ...
At the time, LMC was a highly successful truck and bus manufacturer – as well as owning prosperous car brands Triumph and Rover – whilst BMH (which was the product of an earlier merger between the British Motor Corporation, Pressed Steel and Jaguar) was perilously close to collapse.
Jaguar (UK: / ˈ dʒ æ ɡ j u ər /, US: / ˈ dʒ æ ɡ w ɑːr /) is the sports car and luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover, [1] [2] a British multinational car manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, England. Jaguar Cars was the company that was responsible for the production of Jaguar cars until its operations were ...
The Lanchester company was located until early 1931 at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, and afterwards at Sandy Lane, Coventry England. It was purchased by the BSA Group at the end of 1930, after which its cars were made by Daimler on Daimler's Coventry sites. So, with Daimler, Lanchester became part of Jaguar Cars in ...
The Whitley plant, situated in Whitley, Coventry, United Kingdom, is the headquarters and one of the engineering centres of Jaguar Land Rover.The facility is a fully integrated design, research and development centre and is used for the design and development of Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles.
Rover's main Coventry car factory had been extensively damaged during the Nazi bombing of Coventry. Rover had negotiated an option to use the Solihull plant if their own was not viable to use at the war's end and in 1945 the Rover Company officially relocated from Coventry to the Lode Lane plant.