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George Cunningham worked at the Linwood car factory from before it was officially opened until shortly before it closed for good. He is a useful source of information about what it was like to work in the industry, as well as being someone with strong opinions on why the car industry in Scotland failed. In this source George discusses the effects that the job losses caused by the closure of the Linwood factory had on the local community and on individual workers.
George Cunningham who worked in Linwood from 1962-1980. "I left a year before it closed. The unfortunate thing I still had the people who worked for me. I phoned the day I heard it and they said it was like a death…. Some people got jobs, especially with the Council, but you couldn't take 9000. Other people just didn't work at all and that's still the same. I mean, I knew people who never worked again. I knew one guy who went home with his cheque, sat by the fire and died of a heart attack. So, yes, there was a big upset in this part of the world." |  | |
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