Archive : Laid-off again

29 September 1959 Keith Adams 0

The 1,000 day-shift employees at the Pressed Steel Company’s factory at Cowley, Oxford, who, with a similar number on the night-shift, were laid off because of last week’s fire at the Rootes Group assembly plant at Ryton- on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, resumed work yesterday, but as normal deliveries of car bodies to Coventry was impossible, they had to stop at 10a.m., and were asked to return on Wednesday.

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Keith Adams

Editor and creator AROnline at AROnline

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.