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Screw strike threat
9 August 1969
DAILY EXPRESS
SCREWY...
About 500 men are idle, and jobs of thousands more are in jeopardy at, the Standard-Triumph plant at Coventry where unions are squabbling over the tightening of two screws on the dashboard of the Triumph 2000.
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