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Car body strike: 2500 more idle
6 September 1969
DAILY EXPRESS
The 11-day-old unofficial strike of car body workers at Standard-Triumph's Liverpool plant caused another 2,500 production workers to be laid off at the company's Coventry factory yesterday.
A Standard Triumph spokesman said yesterday: "The jobs of all 12,000 of our company's workmen in Coventry are threatened."
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