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Bright spark rewarded
20 March 1979
On this day British Leyland worker, Steve Mason, employed at Pressed Steel Fisher in Oxford, suggests an idea which will save the firm more than £15,000 a year and is duly rewarded with a cheque for £1,250 for the suggestion, involving a reinforcement plate for the Marina underframe.
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