page_title: Ryton plant
section_title: Closure
hierarchical_section_title: Ryton plant / Closure
caption_attribution_description: English: Ryton former Peugeot car plant. Demolition of the former car plant is in progress. Part of the site is to be developed for warehousing.
context_page_description: The Ryton plant is a former car manufacturing plant in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, England. Developed by the Rootes Group as a shadow factory in 1939 to produce aircraft engines for World War II; post war it became the headquarters of the group. Taken over by Peugeot in 1978, it shut in December 2006, and was subsequently redeveloped by Trenport Investments Ltd, for industrial use in March 2007.
  The plant met its final demise in November 2007, when it was completely demolished.
context_section_description: In April 2006, Peugeot decided that the Ryton plant would close during July 2007. In October 2006, however, Peugeot announced it would close its plant six months sooner than expected. In the event, it closed on 12 December 2006, and the 140-acre (0.57 km²) site was sold to developer Trenport Investments Ltd for industrial use in March 2007. The plant was demolished in November 2007.
  In October 2012, Network Rail acquired the site from Prologis, and constructed a haulage distribution centre. The centre opened the following year, and serves as a hub for the National Delivery Service for Network Rail.
  Jaguar Land Rover now have 3 manufacturing units on this site: prototype build, classics and svo special vehicle operations. "Ryton" is not used on addresses/references to these sites and "Oxford Road" is used instead, to distance JLR from their previous Peugeot competitors.
caption: Demolition of the plant, March 2008
exif: {}