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Ford of Britain's Dagenham engine plant celebrated 40 years of production for Ford Transit this week with the introduction of a new 2.2-litre diesel unit for the vehicle - itself 40 years old this year.
Diesel engine builders joined managers and trade union representatives at the ceremony marking the first of the new units off the line.
Production will rise to 200,000 engines a year by June 2006. The engine is the product of the fourth phase of cooperation on diesel engines between Ford and PSA Peugeot Citroën. The agreement was signed in 1998, since when the manufacturers have jointly built over 4,000,000 engines and seen diesel penetration soar to 55 per cent of car sales in some European markets.
The Dagenham plant received £82 million of investment to design and manufacture the commercial vehicle engine, which takes Ford Dagenham's output over a million engines a year and adds a sixth product to Dagenham's diesel line-up. The site has seen investment worth more than £550 million since 2003, when Dagenham was declared the company's global centre for diesel engine design and production.
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Source : http://www.autoindustry.co.uk
(10/28/2005)
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