Lesney toy factory closure
- Title
- Lesney toy factory closure
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 3 Jan 1982
- Year of production
- 1982
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- Duration
- 00:03:05
- Description
- Report on the closure of the Lesney toy factory in Hackney, east London - the producer of Matchbox cars. Includes interviews with workers about redundancies. Male reporter not identified. Cataloguer’s note: transmission date supplied may be incorrect; speaker discusses the liklihood of working on Christmas Eve, their last day.
- Contributors
- None Identified
- Keywords
- London; Companies; Unemployment; Hackney; Toys; Redundancies; Factories; Lesney Products & Co. Ltd.
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