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Lucas strike
8 July 1970
THE GUARDIAN
Jaguar has abandoned production at Coventry, laying off 1,500 workers, and 1,000 Rover workers have been sent home from Solihull for two days; 1,500 Pressed Steel Fisher employees are laid off.
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