Cold edge of steel
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APPEARING BEFORE a ban ruptcy court, a 37-year-o haulage contractor has de cribed how the 1979 ste workers' strike spelt the begi fling of the end for his busines John Shufflebottom told t court how he set up JS Tran port in 1977, concentrating hauling steel and manufacturi additives. By February 1979, public examination in Durha was told, he had made a tradi profit of nearly £7,000, 95 p cent of his business being bas on the steel industry.
The court heard how his fir became idle during the wint long strike and how Mr Shuffl bottom of Blackgate East, Co hoe, near Durham, was unab to find alternative contracts.
"I believed that once the stri was over, we would pick up m mentum again. But the we didn't come back," he told t Court.
Mr Shufflebottom finall ceased trading at the end of 19E with debts of £14,671.