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Rover news

31 December 1959

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
COVENTRY, DEC. 30
About 2,000 men concerned on car and Land-Rover production at the Solihull works (near Birmingham) of the Rover Motor Company were being laid off yesterday because of a strike of a small number of men employed in the detail paint shop, a company statement said.

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