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Work resumed

19 March 1959

Normal working was resumed yesterday at the British Motor Corporation body building plant of Fisher and Ludlow Ltd., Birmingham, where 1,000 employees were without work during a 24- hour token strike by maintenance electricians on Tuesday.

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