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Strikes
19 February 1970
DAILY EXPRESS
Jaguar Cars production at Coventry was halted and 1,500 assembly men sent home resulting from trouble at a supplier's factory. Standard-Triumph at Coventry had production of the 1300 model halted and about 1,700 men in Coventry and Liverpool were put on short time.
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