Jaguar Cars Limite is a luxury car manufacturer based in Whitley, Coventry, United Kingdom with two production plants in Castle Bromwich and Halewood. It was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in Blackpool in 1922, changing to SS Cars Ltd in 1934 in Coventry, and finally becoming Jaguar Cars Ltd in 1945, followed by several subsequent changes of ownership. The company was bought by Ford Motor Corporation in 1989 becoming part of their Premier Automotive Group. On 2008-03-26 Ford and Tata Motors of India announced an agreement that Ford would sell its Jaguar Land Rover operations to Tata for US$2.3 billion. On 2008-06-02 the sale to Tata was completed by both parties.