Gathering of people at the bar taking up space in The Factory (8,4)
I believe the answer is:
assembly line
'factory' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'gathering of people at the bar' is the wordplay.
'gathering of people' becomes 'assembly' (I've seen this before).
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the bar' becomes 'line' (I've seen this in other clues).
'assembly'+'line'='ASSEMBLY LINE'
'taking up space in the' is the link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for assembly line that I've seen before include "Factory installation" , "Series of machines in factory" , "Eg, car plant set-up" , "Mechanical system for mass production" , "Sequence of operations in factory" .)