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Originally a roadie for The Specials - then known as The Coventry Automatics - he joined the band as a singer in the late 1970s.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2024

In the late 1970s, Mr. Hall joined a Coventry punk band called Squad, which brought him to the attention of Jerry Dammers, a songwriter and keyboardist who was in a band called the Automatics.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2022

At a "shooting party" in Boston's Algonquin club last week, Host Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr., president of Johnson Automatics, Inc., introduced his latest "weapon"�an indoor target gun.

From Time Magazine Archive

Automatics and electric torches were held ready now.

From The Black Star A Detective Story by McCulley, Johnston