Archive : Components Men To End Strike

1 October 1963 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 30

The 400 strikers at the Birmingham components firm of Weathershields. Ltd., whose two-week-old strike halted car production at the Rover Motor Company factory, and threatened other assembly plants. decided at a mass meeting here today to resume work tomorrow.

Later a Rover official said that production would be resumed on Wednesday, and the 1,200 men who have been idle since Friday should return to work then.

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Created www.austin-rover.co.uk in 2001 and built it up to become the world's foremost reference source for all things BMC, Leyland and Rover Group, before renaming it AROnline in 2007.

Is the Editor of the Parkers website and price guide, formerly editor of Classic Car Weekly, and launch editor/creator of Modern Classics magazine. Has contributed to various motoring titles including Octane, Practical Classics, Evo, Honest John, CAR magazine, Autocar, Pistonheads, Diesel Car, Practical Performance Car, Performance French Car, Car Mechanics, Jaguar World Monthly, MG Enthusiast, Modern MINI, Practical Classics, Fifth Gear Website, Radio 4, and the the Motoring Independent...

Likes 'conditionally challenged' motors and taking them on unfeasible adventures all across Europe.