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Vehicle builders go back to work
17 August 1962
VEHICLE BUILDERS GO BACK TO WORK
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 16
A serious delay in production at British Motor Corporation factories in the Midlands was averted today when 200 vehicle builders resumed work so that talks could proceed with the management at Fisher and Ludlow Ltd., Erdington, about a dispute concerning responsibility for back seat rest riveting. The dispute led to the laying off of 2,500 workers at the factory, the corporations main body-building plant-yesterday. At the B.M.C. Austin factory at Longbridge 1,000 workers ware told not to report for work today
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