MUP deploy and Meteor v1.6

Development application compiles and runs fine.
mup setup - all good.

But when I get to the deployment point, MUP deploy fails with

While processing files with ecmascript (for target os.linux.x86_64):
/Users/mbp15/MeteorReact/swabfirst/node_modules/babel-plugin-lodash/lib/index.js:105:49:
Cannot read property 'imports' of undefined at PluginPass.Program

I’m using
docker: {
image: ‘abernix/meteord:node-8.9.3-base’,
},