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Dunlop Strikers go back

16 March 1963

A B.M.C. official at Longbridge, Birmingham, where about 1,350 workers on mini-car production had been laid off, said after the settlement:  "We shall be resuming work on Monday."

Resumption at Cowley will be on Tuesday.

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