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Transits were originally manufactured in the ex-Spitfire works in Langley that beacme a light truck plant that Ford offloaded to Iveco. It is now a warehousing industrial estate including a large Royal Mail Depot.
Transit production was moved to Eastleigh, giving a boost to Southampton airport as Ford Execs and Engineers jetted around Europe.
Ford Europe then began production of the Transit Connect in Turkey,
(doing away with Escort-derived vans), and famously used EIB funds to transfer full-size Transit production to the same plant.
Ford UK stopped vehicle production in Dagenham in early 2002, but retained (diesel) engine production thanks to a £400M grant (partly from the EU) for introducing less energy intense manufacturing methods.Bridgend could be read as 'no more EU grants = no more manufacturing'.
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Don’t they built Transits in Bridgend? Or was that Dagenham?
If so, that was always going to China, just as the E series and US manufacturing has.