Rolls-Royce jobs set to go by mid-year

A “SMALL number” of Rolls-Royce workers were predicted to lose their jobs at its Mountsorrel base.

The national company’s Are Engine Division announced that its workforce would be reduced by mid-1970 by about 3,500 employees from its present level of 45,700.

One of the factories affected was at Mountsorrel and the Echo was informed a “small number” of people would be involved.