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Jaguar and Austin news
28 August 1973
THE GUARDIAN
JAGUAR NEWS
The 150 machinists who walked out from Jaguar Cars in Coventry, on Friday complaining that the public address system was to noisy, returned to work yesterday. A company spokesman said that since adjustments to a newly installed loudspeaker there had been no complaints, and work was back to normal.
AUSTIN MORRIS NEWS
A new move will be made today to end the strike which has stopped Mini production at the Austin-Morris factory at longbridge, Birmingham. The strikers had planned not to meet again until Thursday, but union officials and shop stewards have called the 330 press operators involved in a manning dispute at British Leyland's car body factory in Castle Bromwich to a special meeting.
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