LDV in Plymouth

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Hundreds of jobs at LDV, the van maker owned by Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire, appeared to have been saved when the Government agreed to provide a £5 million bridging loan. On Monday, Gaz, Mr Deripaska’s Russian automotive business, signed a deal to sell LDV to Weststar, the Malaysian vehicle importer and contract manufacturer, but Weststar needed the bridging loan while it set up a finance deal. It is believed that Westar has pledged to put £50 million into the business, which was trying to relaunch itself as a green vehicle maker with plans to boost production of a new electric van. The plan involves keeping production in Birmingham and doubling output in the medium term by exporting more vans to Malaysia. Times It looks like LDV might just continue, when it was looking pretty bad for the company until this week. You can see the problem the company have been having. A few years back there were plenty of new LDV van on the streets of Plymouth. These days its rare to see any new ones with anyone other than Royal Mail. Plymouth City Council used to buy nothing else for its larger vans fleet: Plymouth City Council took plenty of the LDV Convoy and Pilot vans in all shapes and sizes but they have not taken any of the newer Maxus range. Apart from hire companies and Royal Mail I have not seen many out and about at all.