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Charles Wood had, until three years ago, worked as a janitor at the British Ford plant in Dagenham, Essex. Since his retirement, he and his wife Marie had been hoarding every shilling against the day that they could take off for a visit to Marie's sister, who lived in Corpus Christi, Texas. Last week they sailed into New York harbor on the Queen Elizabeth. As careful budgeters, they had already purchased their tickets for every step of the way: round-trip from New York to Texas and back on American Airlines, one-way back to Britain...
...breaking point came early this month. An anonymous middle-aged man raised the standard of revolt, refused to budge when told to get off an Underground train that had come to a dead stop. He shouted: "It says on the front of the train that it is going to Dagenham East!" And, glaring around at his sheeplike fellow passengers, he added: "That is where we are all going, aren...
...master, and the intimidated station master fetched a policeman, who blandly said he could do nothing unless the passengers were disorderly, and clearly they were not. For half an hour the embattled mutineers ignored threats and blandishments. Then the station master gave in, and the train went on to Dagenham East with the rebels waving their bowlers and umbrellas in triumph...
...flats of Dagenham, for instance, where the last of the river pirates were hanged on a gibbet a few centuries ago, Ford Motor Co., Ltd., of England has one of the biggest, busiest automobile plants in Europe-34 acres, 15,000 men under one roof. Furthermore, as of the time I was there the car and commercial vehicle sections of the British motor industry had already exceeded their export goals...
...great plant at Dagenham, Ford of England makes a Ford all its own-a smallish 8-h. p. car designed to circumvent high British automobile taxes. Ford of England used to buy its standard size models from Ford of Canada, lately has begun to turn out British-made...