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Issues facing Scotland鈥檚 car industry in the 1960s
The Linwood car factory near Glasgow was only an assembly plant and it was reliant on the supply chain from component factories in England. Transport costs lead to management paying less in Scotland than for equivalent jobs in England. The result was poor industrial relations and strikes.
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