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Page last updated at 18:13 GMT, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:13 UK

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The recently closed Hoover factory in Merthyr Tydfil has been transformed into a 1960s car factory for the film Dagenham Girls.

The film focuses on strikes at the Dagenham Ford plant by women workers in 1968 Essex, which ultimately led to the Equal Pay Act. Kate Scott-Williams reports.

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