Archive : Return to work at car factory

5 March 1983 Keith Adams 0

RETURN TO WORK AT CAR FACTORY

Production at Fisher and Ludlow, the British Motor Corporation car body factory in Birmingham, returned to normal yesterday as 140 internal transport workers ended their unofficial strike.

The stoppage, in protest against the two- day suspension of a colleague, begin last Thursday. Within 24 hours, 7,000 workers at the factory, 1,100 at the Austin factory in Birmingham. and 150 at Morris Motors, Cowley, had been sent home. They all resumed work yesterday.

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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.