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Car Men Back On Night Shift
9 June 1961
DAILY MIRROR
Night shift working started again yesterday at Standard Triumph car factories in Coventry – the first time since the slump hit the motor industry last autumn .
A Standard triumph spokesman said that production of the firms Triumph herald was being stepped up .
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