Reminds me of what happened to the Triumph Motorcycle plant at Meriden back in 1973 when the company tried to close it down. Worker's commune and all that, they survived another ten years before finally calling it quite. Had one of their '79's, wonderful bike.
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Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)