Archive for March, 1961
Archive : Triumph order: check cars in factory
DAILY EXPRESS By Basil Cardew One of Britain’s big five car manufacturers today makes a determined bid to put a stop to hundreds of complaints from customers. Standard-Triumph of Coventry are starting a stringent before sale check up of their cars- in the factory. And I believe that other manufacturers will have to follow suit. [...]
March 29, 1961
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Archive : Five-Day Week At Morris Motors
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MARCH 26 New workers will be recruited at Morris Motors Ltd., Cowley, this week for the first time since the beginning of the recession in the motor industry last autumn. This week also marks the return to a full five-day working week for the first time for several months. Next month [...]
March 27, 1961
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Archive : Cowley Car Plant Back To Normal
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MARCH 21 Working will be normal at Morris Motors, Ltd., Cowley, next week for the first time since the start of the motor recession last autumn. A British Motor Corporation spokesman said in Birmingham today: “This will mean a return to the basis of five days or four and a half [...]
March 22, 1961
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Archive : Rover strikes
THE GUARDIAN Nearly 3,00 workers were idle yesterday at Rover Motor Company factories in the Birmingham area. The main assembly lines were again idle at the parent factory at Solihull, and over 2,000 workers were idle at four branch factories because of the interruption in production caused by the three-week-old strike at another branch factory. [...]
March 21, 1961
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Archive : 1500 Rover Men Go Back
Fifteen hundred employees at the Rover motor company components factories in Birmingham turned up for work yesterday after nine days idleness. They stopped work originally following a pay strike by car parts inspectors. The 1500, who said they would not work without inspectors, went back yesterday on union orders. But last night union leaders declared [...]
March 17, 1961
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Archive : E-type steals the show at Geneva
GENEVA Thursday Britain’s new E-type Jaguar was hailed by the Swiss press today as the “sensation” of the 31st Geneva International Motor Show. Sir William Lyons, chairman of the Jaguar Company, was standing beside a model of the car which is making its world premiere here when the show opened today. “We have already received [...]
March 17, 1961
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Archive : Rover Strike is Official
The strike of 65 inspectors at the Rover Motor Company’s works at Acocks Green, Birmingham, was officially recognized yesterday by the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Transport and General Workers’ Union. The 65 inspectors are members of the A.E.U. and more than half the labour force at the factory are in the T.G.W.U. Production workers [...]
March 16, 1961
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Archive : 1500 Car Workers Made Idle
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD. MARCH 14 More than 1,500 workers at Cowley were idle today because of a strike at the Pressed Steel Company which was holding up supplies of car bodies to the neighbouring Morris Motors Factory. But the strikers decided to return to work tomorrow. The stoppage halted production at Morris Motors of [...]
March 15, 1961
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Archive : Strike By 200 Car Body Workers
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MARCH 13 A strike of 200 workers on British Motor Corporation car body production at the Pressed Steel Company, Cowley, today brought work to a standstill on the one and a half litre Farina range at the neighbouring Morris Motors factory when the assembly lines had to be closed. Nine hundred [...]
March 14, 1961
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Archive : BMC Machinists to end strike
B.M.C. MACHINISTS TO END STRIKE The 73 machinists whose unofficial strike at the British Motor Corporation’s tractor and transmissions factory, Birmingham, caused 2,000 production workers at Birmingham and Oxford to be laid off. are to return to work on Monday. The men have been on strike in a dispute over piecework rates, and discussions will [...]
March 11, 1961
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Archive : 2000 Made Idle By BMC Strike
More than 2,000 British Motor Corporation workers have been made idle as a result of a strike of 73 machinists at the tractor and transmissions branch factory at Washwood Heath, Birmingham. The strike arises from a dispute over a piecework rate. The men are engaged on production of components for the rear suspension of the [...]
March 10, 1961
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Archive : Strike Stops Work On Mini-Minor
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MARCH 8 Three hundred and fifty men on the Mini-Minor line at the Cowley factory of Morris Motors Limited were sent home at noon today because of a breakdown in supplies. The cause of the breakdown is a stoppage at the Morris Motors Limited tractors and transmissions branch at Birmingham, which [...]
March 9, 1961
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Archive : Strike Spreads At Rovers
Strike Spreads At Rovers FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 7 A strike of inspectors at Birmingham branch factories of the Rover Motor Company spread today to a fourth factory, when 46 inspectors at the Ryland Road factory joined the 211 who are already on strike. The strike began last week when 65 inspectors at the [...]
March 8, 1961
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Archive : Stanley Markland
Mr Stanley Markland has been appointed deputy managing director of Leyland Motors. Mr W. West, who previously held the positions of Leyland’s deputy chairman and managing director, continues to hold the appointment of deputy chairman to the board.
March 6, 1961
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