Birmingham Dunlop plant closing today
After 125 years of tyre-making in Birmingham, the city's Dunlop Motorsport factory is closing down today.
Birmingham Dunlop Motorsport factory to close today
125 years of tyre-making will end at the Dunlop Motorsport factory in Birmingham today.
The closure of the plant was announced in February, with 241 people made redundant.
Despite calls from MPs to keep production in the city, production is being moved 3,500 miles away to Ohio in America.
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