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VEHICLE manufacturing is to be reduced at the Hestair Dennis plant at Guildford as part of a Hestair group drive for increased efficiency.
Between 400 and 500 jobs will go at Guildford when all Hestair municipal vehicle manufacture is transferred in July to a new Dennis Eagle plant being built at Warwick.
The new 140,000sqft plant will be the largest refuse vehicle manufacturing site in Europe and some new jobs will be created there building Dennis chassis and Eagle bodies.
Hestair plans to increase market share in Britain and extend its exports in Europe and the USA.
Dennis fire appliance chassis will continue to be produced at Guildford, but all bodywork and other fire engineering activity will be supplied by Carmichael Fire of Worcester.
All Dennis cab production is to be switched to the recently acquired Hestair Duple plant at Blackpool which will leave the original Guildford site producing bus and coach chassis and fire appliance chassis in two separate workshops.
Hestair will sell approximately 14 acres of its Guildford site for redevelopment. Its comparatively limited commercial vehicle production is likely to be carried out at Warwick.