Jaguar Land Rover to be UK owned again?

Britain’s biggest workers’ union and key regional newspapers have launched a massive campaign to save beleaguered Indian-owned marques Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) from collapsing in the credit crunch.Campaigners have also taken their fight to the Internet, with a Save JLR page launched on Facebook and an e-petition put up on Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s website. – from Thaindian

SOME of our Trinity Mirror sister titles have launched a campaign calling on the UK Government to effectively loan, or guarantee finance, to one of the Midlands’ key employers Jaguar Land Rover – potentially to the tune of £1bn.

Seems a very reasonable position as so many well paid jobs both directly and in directly in the supply chain are at stake, not just in the Midlands but here in Wales too.

More than 100,000 engines for Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles are made annually at Ford’s Bridgend plant. And according to the Welsh Automotive Forum in total 24 firms in Wales are suppliers to JLR. – from Wales