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Rover strike
19 June 1969
DAILY MIRROR
At the Rover factory, at Solihull, Warwickshire, work on the dollar earning Rover 2000 stopped yesterday—because of an unofficial
strike by fifty-seven men at the company's Cardiff works.
About 2,000 men at Solihull , and 600 at Cardiff, are being laid off.
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