Toyota Motor Corp. anticipates halting production at its Midlands U.K. factory in the event Britain leaves the European Union without a deal, the plants managing director, Marvin Cooke, told the BBC.

The Japanese company operates the Burnaston car plant that produced 150,000 vehicles last year, with about 90 percent of the units shipped to the EU, while components come the other way, the BBC reported. The factory has 2,500 employees, according to the company's website.

"My view is that if Britain crashes out of the EU at the end of March, we will see production stops in our factory,' Cooke, head of the plant that makes the Auris and Avensis cars, said in an interview with the BBC posted on its website. "It could be hours, days, weeks — even months."