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BLMC woes
15 September 1973
BLMC WOES
At Cowley, Oxford, the company had to send home 2,000 employees at its assembly factory, where production has been upset because of a strike at the Wilmot Breeden components plant in Birmingham. They will be back at work next week, as will the Wilmot Breeden strikers themselves, following talks in Birmingham yesterday.
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