Archive for September, 1962
Archive : Strike stops 1300 Jaguar workers
STRIKE STOPS 1,300 JAGUAR WORKERS Thirteen hundred production workers at Jaguar Cars Ltd., Coventry, were sent home yesterday after an unofficial one-day token strike by 20 men in the automatic chrome plating plant. The strikers have demanded a change in their methods and rate of pay. The company said they had made several offers during [...]
September 27, 1962
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Archive : A thousand car body men without work
1,000 Car Body Men Without Work FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD. SEPT. 24 About 1,000 car body workers at the Cowley factory of the Pressed Steel Company are without work today. Of these, 600 make bodies for the Rootes Group’s Super Minx. They are working only three days this week and will report back on Wednesday. [...]
September 25, 1962
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Archive : Car body workers on short time
CAR BODY WORKERS ON SHORT TIME FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, SEPT. 21 The Pressed Steel Company’s factory at Oxford. which supplies a large section of the car industry with bodies is working short time: The reason is the falling off in orders for bodies, particularly for the popular ranges of car. So far only piece-workers [...]
September 22, 1962
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Archive : Ford Cortina launched today
FORD – The Ford Cortina Mk1 is launched today.
September 21, 1962
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Archive : 24-hour strike by car factory clerks
24-HOUR STRIKE BY CAR FACTORY CLERKS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY. SEPT. 20 Standard Triumph International. Ltd.. remained silent on the effects of a 24-hour strike today by its 800 clerical workers at the car factory here, but the unions claimed that assembly tracks were halted and up to 1,000 production men sent home. The stoppage, [...]
September 21, 1962
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Archive : MGB is launched today
BMC – Today the ADO23 MGB is launched.
September 20, 1962
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Archive : Changes In Leyland Motors Group
Changes In Leyland Motors Group Changes in the top organization of the Leyland Motors group are announced today following the Leyland-ACV merger. They include the retirement of Sir Henry Spurrier from the position of managing director of Leyland Motors Ltd. to take over as executive chairman of a new group policy-forming company. The title of [...]
September 20, 1962
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Archive : BMC opens factory In Scotland
Decisions on whether or not to increase production of tractors at the British Motor Corporation’s new plant at Bathgate, West Lothian, to 750 a week, providing 400 more jobs for Scotland, will be taken in January or February, it was announced yesterday by Mr. C. Spires, director and general manager of B.M.C. (Scotland) Ltd. He [...]
September 18, 1962
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Archive : Leyland Chairman On Merger Benefits
Leyland Chairman On Merger Benefits Sir Henry Spurrier, chairman and managing director of Leyland Motors, Mr Stanley Markland, deputy managing director, and Mr Donald Stokes, sales director, have joined the board of Associated Commercial Vehicles, following the merger between the two companies. Lord Brabazon, A.CV. chairman, and Sir William Black, managing director, have been been [...]
September 14, 1962
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Archive : CAB2 opens at Longbridge
BMC – An Austin A40 is the first car to leave the newly completed CAB2 at Longbridge.
September 7, 1962
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