Nearly 1,000 bikes used to leave the Triumph works at Meriden, near Coventry, every week, most of them for export. They represented 80% of the British motorbike industry and were a massive dollar earner. Then management decided to close the factory and 1,700 men and women lost their jobs. But more than half of them refused to go. They staged a sit-in, organised a 24-hour picket and began a fight to take over the factory and run it themselves. For five months they have held out, their savings gone, their redundancy pay ended. What makes factory workers take desperate measures to save their jobs? How is their morale affected as the weeks drag on? Harold Williamson and a Man Alive film team went behind the picket lines, into the now silent factory.