Vauxhall's Development on Merseyside
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PRELIMINARY work at the site of Vauxhall Motors' new factory at Hooton Park, Cheshire, is expected to start in July. The factory will he devoted to the production of major mechanical components for both cars arid commercial vehicles. The assembly of Bedford trucks will continue at the Dunstable factory.
Mr. William Swallow, Vauxhall's chairman and managing director, said that when this new factory was in production at Hooton Park, which was expected to be early in 1963, employment would rise progressively to a figure of about 4,000 peop:e—almast all of them locally recruited—compared with the original estimate of 3,500.
The company's main expansion in future years will be concentrated at the Hooton Park site, and it is expected that this first phase of Vauxhall's development on Merseyside will be followed by further construction.