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The Jaguar Land Rover Engineering Centre at Whitley, near the traditional home of British motor engineering, Coventry, is now a joint facility that was established by Jaguar's owners at the time, Ford Motor Company. When Ford sold Jaguar and Land Rover to Indian family conglomerate, Tata, in 2008, the centre was combined to work for both marques. Land Rovers had already begun utilising Jaguar engines by that stage.
This is a fully integrated design, research and development centre for all current and future Jaguar products. At an area of 155 acres of engineering space including the surrounding Jaguar owned green field, the facility houses approximately 2,000 employees.
The site was originally built in 1918 as airfield and later moved into aero engineering activities, but has been a Jaguar plant since 1985.
In the early 1920s the site and its associated buildings were bought by Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Co. Ltd. Them, from about 1923 until the end of the Second World War a series of aircraft were built here, including the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin, the highly-regarded Hawker Hart biplane series and finally the the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley
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