Car production in Britain dropped 20 per cent in July as factories continued to struggle with restrictions and slow demand.
After up to three months of lost output during workplace lockdowns, production is running at 40 per cent lower in the first seven months of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019.
Last month 85,000 cars came off assembly lines, taking the year-to-date figure to 467,000 and putting the industry on course to produce an estimated 880,000 cars this year, compared with 1.7 million in 2016 and back to levels last seen in the 1950s. This year is likely to be the first that annual car production is below one million since 2009.
“These figures are a marked improvement on the previous three months,
