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The Ryton assembly plant continued in operation until 2006, manufacturing Peugeot 206 models, when the new 207 production was controversially moved to Slovakia with EU subsidies.
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Ryton and assembly
What was to be called the Talbot Arizona became the 309, with the former Rootes plant in Ryton and Simca plant in Poissy being turned over for Peugeot assembly.
Rootes had to build a new computerised assembly plant on the outskirts of Glasgow, in the town of Linwood in which to assemble the Imp, since planning regulations banned it from further expanding its Ryton plant near Coventry.
Ryton and plant
In April 2006 Peugeot closed its Ryton plant and moved 206 production to Slovakia.
After Chrysler UK was bought by Peugeot Talbot, a review of the plant and associated models decided to close the Linwood plant in favour of retaining the Ryton plant near Coventry.
1972 Hillman Avenger saloon built at the Ryton plant
The former factory ( also known as the Ryton plant ) was a feature of the village for more than 60 years.
In April 2006, Peugeot decided that the Ryton plant would close during 2007.
* Photographic gallery on the closed down Peugeot plant in Ryton.
* Discussing closure of Ryton Peugeot plant
Thus, Rootes were not allowed to expand their existing Ryton plant ( itself provided by the Government for war production ), but instead were obliged to build in an area of Scotland where there was a shortage of work.
The Peugeot 309 was the first of the Peugeot line built in the Ryton plant.
Eventually however, PSA abandoned the three marque strategy, and the Horizon replacement, developed as the Talbot Arizona became the Peugeot 309 in 1986, and was the first Peugeot badged car to be assembled at the Ryton plant.
The writing was on the wall for Ryton when Peugeot announced that the new 207 would not be assembled at the former Rootes plant, and in April 2006, after years of speculation surrounding Ryton's future, the PSA Group announced that residual 206 production would move to Eastern Europe.
Hunter production was switched in 1969 to Rootes ' troubled Imp plant in Linwood, from its original home of Ryton.
Production in France began in late summer of 1985, with the first French customers getting their cars in October of that year, but it was decided that right-hand drive models would be built at the Ryton plant near Coventry, England, which had previously been owned by the Rootes Group and then Chrysler Europe before Peugeot took it over in 1978.
Production was transferred from Ryton to the Linwood plant in Scotland in 1977, where it was produced until the end of its production life.
Production continued until 1981, when Peugeot closed the Linwood production plant and concentrated all British production at the Ryton plant, which was in use until the end of 2006, by which time it had been making Peugeot cars for 21 years.
The end of British production coincided with the closure of the Ryton plant which Peugeot had taken over when buying Chrysler's European division in 1979.
The Horizon was initially built in the former Simca factory in France but from 1980 production expanded to the former Chrysler Europe Ryton plant, near Coventry in England.
Ryton and continued
The Simca-based models ( the Horizon, Alpine and Solara ) continued to be built at Ryton, using the resurrected Talbot badge for the first half of the 1980s.
Ryton and until
The Ryton factory remained open until December 2006.
Ryton and 2006
On 18 April 2006, PSA Peugeot Citroën announced the closure of the Ryton manufacturing facility in Coventry, England.
The former Rootes Ryton plant was closed in December 2006, with production of the Peugeot 206 ( made there since the summer of 1998 ) moved to Slovakia.
Ryton and manufacturing
It marked the end of nearly 60 years of car manufacturing at Ryton, and severed the motor industry's final remaining link with the Rootes Group.
Amicus and the TGWU, both unions representing workers at PSA's UK manufacturing plant in Ryton, Coventry, chose the same day to launch a campaign calling for the boycott of PSA's Peugeot and Citroën vehicles in the UK.
Ryton and Peugeot
Peugeot started production of the 309 hatchback at Ryton in January 1986, followed by the 405 at the end of 1987.
The Talbot badge was discontinued on passenger cars in 1987 and commercial vehicles in 1995, whilst Ryton went on to assemble the Peugeot 405 and 306. The last car assembled at Ryton: the Peugeot 206.
Ryton began assembling its last Peugeot, the 206, in 1998.
Hillman's Ryton factory closed in January 2007 assembling various Peugeot models for the European market.
The Peugeot 206 was also built at Ryton in Coventry, England, however, with the introduction of the ' 207 ' to the range Peugeot decided to close the Ryton factory and move production to Slovakia with EU funding.
Ryton and 206
As the decade progressed, production of the 306 and 206 also began at Ryton.
Ryton and production
In the end a complex schedule of trains shifting completed cars and raw castings down south and trains loaded with engine – gearbox assemblies and many other Ryton sourced goods ran north for the duration of Linwood Imp production.
The first 309 for the British market rolled off the production line at Ryton in October 1985 and sales began at the beginning of the following year.
The main production lines of Talbot Horizon were Poissy factory in France and Ryton in England.
Ryton and was
In a 1980 stage play by Royce Ryton, Motherdear, she was portrayed by Margaret Lockwood in her last acting role.
Producing Peugeots in Ryton was significant, as it signalled the very first time Peugeots would be built in Britain.
In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, the County Borough of Gateshead was merged with the urban districts of Felling, Whickham, Blaydon and Ryton and part of the rural district of Chester-le-Street to create the much larger Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.
Stephanie de Sykes ( born Stephanie Ryton, 1948 ) is a British singer, and was once a girlfriend of Angus Deayton.
Another problem was that the component suppliers were still based in the Midlands, and the company incurred further costs in transporting half-finished engine castings from Linwood to be machined at Ryton and returned to Linwood once they had been assembled — at the same time as completed Imps returned south again, resulting in a round trip!
Whilst Ryton was saved, PSA took little interest in the heavy commercial vehicles and the former Commer / Dodge / Karrier truck and van factory was run in conjunction with the trucks division of Renault.
However, in 1766 of common land were enclosed at Ryton, and 4 years later enclosure was applied to the remainder of land in Bulkington, totalling.
One of the many problems was that Linwood was over away from Ryton, and the engine castings although made in Linwood, would have to be sent to Ryton to be machined and assembled, and then sent back up to be put on the cars – a round trip.
There was also a Roland Garros special edition with a White leather interior and metallic green paintwork, this model was only made in the Ryton factory.
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