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Laid-off again
29 September 1959
The 1,000 day-shift employees at the Pressed Steel Company's factory at Cowley, Oxford, who, with a similar number on the night-shift, were laid off because of last week's fire at the Rootes Group assembly plant at Ryton- on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, resumed work yesterday, but as normal deliveries of car bodies to Coventry was impossible, they had to stop at 10a.m., and were asked to return on Wednesday.
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