Honda of the UK Manufacturing

The Honda of the UK Manufacturing Ltd. , Internally called HUM, is a set up in 1985, subsidiary of the Japanese Honda company with corporate headquarters in Swindon, England. The premises currently covers an area of ​​370 acres on the plants for automobile manufacturing and engine design, as well as a test track operated. The company's annual production capacity is 250,000 units, which are sold in Europe and in North America. A total of 60 markets to be supplied from the English production. Some 3,400 employees work for the company. The company itself started its operations as an importer of motor vehicles, until 10 October 1992, the production could be included in a separate work. Inside the vehicle identification number, the plant uses the World Manufacturer Code SHH and the factory code U for Swindon in eleventh position.

Company History

The first attempts to manifest itself in the UK market Honda made ​​in 1979 in a joint venture with the Rover Group. In cooperation we eventually chose Swindon as a future location. Contributed to this choice have a good infrastructure with regard to very good connections to several lying near ports, a connection to the main regional Motorways, as well as at the London Heathrow Airport. Swindon was also well known for his former production site of the Great Western Railway, which enjoyed an outstanding reputation in engineering.

The current campus was purchased in the same year by the Vickers Supermarine Limited. It was an airfield whose start and runway has been converted to today's 1.4 km long test track. With an investment of 300 million pounds was in late 1992, after completion of construction, the first plant to start its work.

The previous models of collaboration with Rover were mounted in the factory at Longbridge. Some of the models, there was the so-called badge engineering as Triumph and Rover models. In 1999 this cooperation was terminated by Honda.

The first model produced in the United Kingdom was the small car Honda Civic, followed by the Honda Accord and the Honda Ballade. The Japanese model versions initially only occupied a marginal position, the sister models showed a greater international popularity. Especially in former colonial areas, these models were quite popular. It was only with the decline of the mid-nineties restricted the Honda Autoteilezulieferungen to the now BMW related work drastically, so that most of the models had to be subjected under own direction facelifts. In late 1999, Honda finished then the cooperation and operates since then only a separate and independent production of its vehicles.

1989 also a motor manufacture has been set up at the factory. 365,000 engines will be produced here per year.

The second plant, which had been built over the millennium, began its work on 21 July 2001. Thus, the capacity of 150,000 units has been increased to 250,000 per year. Here then the production of the Honda Civic and the now-defunct Honda Accord was taken. The main car models from the second album, however, are internationally marketed units of the Honda CR- V and the Honda Civic Type R. The new model of the company is built since 2009 Honda Jazz.

In the summer of 2009, the company made a four-month long -running work break. Reason for this measure was a global decline in orders and sales within the first quarter.

Model Overview

Longbridge (Honda - Rover JV)

Honda Civic 5 - Door 1979-1983

Honda Civic Estate 1979-1983

Honda Accord 3 -door 1980 to 1984

Honda Accord 4- Door 1980 to 1984

Honda Ballade 1980-1987

Triumph Acclaim 1981-1984

Honda Civic 3- Door 1983-1987

Honda Civic 4 - Door 1983-1987

Honda Civic Shuttle 1983-1987

Honda Ballade Sports CR -X 1983-1987

Honda Accord 1984-1989

Honda Accord Aerodeck 1984-1989

Rover 200 1984-1989

Rover 800 1986-1991

Honda Civic 3- Door 1987-1991

Honda Civic 4 - Door 1987-1991

Honda Civic Shuttle 1987-1991

Honda CR -X 1987-1991

Honda Accord 1989-1994

Honda Concerto 1989-1994

Rover 200 1989-1995

Rover 200 Convertible 1989-1995

Rover 400 1990-1995

Rover 400 Vitesse 1990-1995

Honda Accord Aerodeck 1991-1994

Honda Civic 3- Door 1991-1994

Honda Civic 5 - Door 1991-1994

Rover 800 1991-1996

Rover 800 Coupe 1992-1999

Rover 200 Coupe 1993-1995

Rover 600 1993-1999

Rover 200 only 1995

Rover 200 Coupe only 1995

Rover 200 Coupe 1995-1999

Rover 800 Coupe 1996-1999

Swindon

Honda Accord Aerodeck 1992-1997

Honda Civic 1994-1998

Honda Civic Aerodeck 1994-2001

Honda Accord 1997-2002

Honda Civic 1998-2001

Honda Civic Hatchback 1998-2001

Honda CR-V 2000-2004

Honda Civic 3- Door 2001 to 2005

Honda Civic Type -R 2001 to 2005

Honda CR-V 2004-2006

Honda Civic since 2005

Honda Civic Type-R '07MY since 2007

Honda Jazz since 2009