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ANY QUESTIONS: Flying the standard for Triumph; THE CAR FIRM SOCIAL CLUB THAT KEPT ON MOTORING - AND KARL MARX'S LIFE IN BRITAIN.(Features)

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From: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Date: 20000622
Author:Draper, Keith

WHEN the last Triumph car left the assembly line at Coventry's Canley plant 20 years ago, the last workers were redeployed to other factories in the group.

The absence of production workers at Canley placed a big question mark over the future of the firm's social club in Tile Hill Lane, a facility that had served the needs of the workforce for some 50 years.

Fortunately, through the persistence of a dedicated few, the Standard Triumph Recreation Club, survived and thrives today (Any Questions, April 19).

Its current manager, Jim Spain, joined Standard in 1955 and ...

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