{"id":12502,"date":"2014-10-11T00:54:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T23:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12502"},"modified":"2014-10-11T00:54:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T23:54:55","slug":"1969-bike-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12502","title":{"rendered":"1969 Bike Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bike
\nOn the perimeter wall of Abingdon’s older Cemetery there is a bike sign. Cycle Racks were there in Spring 1969. They are gone now but the sign remains as a memorial to the cycle racks – presumably they were put there for the workers of the MG Car Plant nearby.<\/p>\n

The MG Car Plant held a grand celebration of 50 years of the MG in Abingdon in 1979, ten year later.<\/p>\n

After a speech, The Plant Director, Peter Frearson, raised a toast to the Mayor of Abingdon and people of Abingdon. He said “Here is to the next 50 years!”<\/em><\/p>\n

The following Monday he received a phone call telling him to announce the closure of the Abingdon plant within the next 3 months.<\/p>\n

I Read in the book “Turbulent Times in the Car Industry” by David Buckle, the Cowley Shop Steward …<\/p>\n

“The stewards began a campaign to save the plant and their jobs and let the public know what was happening to this much respected car factory.<\/em><\/p>\n

The management said that anybody who did anything to prevent the closure would be dismissed due to industrial misconduct and would lose all their severance pay.<\/em><\/p>\n

The campaign against closure collapsed and the final irony was that each employee received a letter of thank for ‘assisting the Company in closing the plant down.’<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the perimeter wall of Abingdon’s older Cemetery there is a bike sign. Cycle Racks were there in Spring 1969. They are gone now but the sign remains as a memorial to the cycle racks – presumably they were put there for the workers of the MG Car Plant nearby. The MG Car Plant held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}