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Rover men sent home
12 April 1961
2,200 ROVER CAR MEN SENT HOME
The Rover Motor Company, at whose factory at Acocks Green, Birmingham, 65 inspectors have been on strike for eight weeks over a pay dispute, yesterday sent home 2,200 men from their works at Solihull, Warwickshire. with orders to return today. The inspectors are to meet today to consider a union recommendation to return to work pending further talks.
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