The Nissan production line

Nissan's factory in Washington, near Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, builds the Qashqai, Juke and Note models. It produced 480,485 cars in 2011, a record for a UK car plant
  
  


Nissan: Nissan's production line in Washington, Tyne and Wear
Nissan's production line in Washington, Tyne and Wear
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Photograph: Christopher Thomond / The Guardiam/Guardian
Nissan: Nissan production line
Nissan opened Britain’s largest car plant in Sunderland in 1986
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Photograph: Christopher Thomond/Guardian
Nissan: An employee on the production line
An employee on the production line. Parts travel through an automated chain of spark-firing weld robots and skilled workers fitting a dashboard every three seconds
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Photograph: Christopher Thomond/Guardian
Nissan: A car door on the production line
A machine on the production line stamps out 22 car doors every minute
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Photograph: Christopher Thomond/Guardian
Nissan: An employee fits a car door
An employee fits a car door. Four decades ago a third of UK-made cars were exported. Now it is eight out of 10
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Photograph: Christopher Thomond/Guardian
Nissan: A digital screen in the factory
A digital screen in the factory. Russia is its biggest market, and many cars go to Ukraine, Turkey and Morocco
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Photograph: Christopher Thomond/Guardian
Nissan: The final quality control line
A perfectly formed vehicle trundles out every 60 seconds
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Photograph: Christopher Thomond/Guardian
 

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