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York sacks boxmen
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YORK TRAILER is pulling out of container manufacture, and 95 workers at the Northallerton works will be made redundant.
A company spokesman told CM that Far Eastern competition has forced the company to pull out of the market and concentrate on building trailers. He said that foreign manufacturers sell their products for half of the prices charged by York.
Sixty-four production workers and 31 supervisory staff will lose their jobs within a few weeks when the current container order is fulfilled. Twenty other production workers will be transferred to trailer work.
York reached a peak of building 17 containers a day last autumn. The present order has been in progress since before Christmas.
Trailer production is continuing despite the steel strike. All workers laid off earlier this year have been reinstated, and the company has found new British sources for its current steel requirements.