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| | Castle Bromwich prepares for XK assembly: when you're putting together an aluminum-intensive vehicle, the sparks don't ... |
 | | Castle Bromwich prepares for XK assembly: when you're putting together an aluminum-intensive vehicle, the sparks don't fly, but rivets are used in abundance |
 | | When the last of the previous generation XKs exited Castle Bromwich in May, 2005, crews went to work gutting the 131,300-[ft.sup.2] body shop to install more than 30 ABB robots, 120 fixtures and two dedicated skillet lines to prepare the XK for its launch in November. |
 | | During a recent tour of the "Castle Brom" (as insiders call it), Richard McDonald, vehicle plant launch manager for XK, points to a number of empty spaces in the plant: "We still have yet to install a number of tools for the final assembly operations," he says. |
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