By bizn_fun 
Umesh Samani, chairman of the Independent Motor Dealers Association, based in Stoke-on-Trent, which has more than 1,000 members, said most independent dealers were saying they were not currently badly affected.
However he said the lack of clarity around when operations at JLR could begin again was an issue.
“The bigger companies probably can ride the storm a little bit longer but the smaller ones in the supply chain… there’s no way they can continue,” he said.
He said he agreed the government needed to step in.
“They’ve got to do something – otherwise there’s going to be so many small businesses going bust, so they’ve got to try and help alleviate the situation,” Mr Samani said.