Archive for September, 1968
Archive : Exports hit by go slow car men
DAILY EXPRESS By Kingsley Squire While 400 car workers continued their extraordinary go-slow to ‘protect’ their jobs against strikes, British Leyland chiefs were last night adding up the probable cost of the campaign: £125,000 a week in lost exports alone. It has already lost the company 200 new-cars in two days – at least 80 [...]
September 27, 1968
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Archive : £6.5m investment in new Jaguars
The Jaguar XJ6 is unveiled By GEOFFREY CHARLES Motoring Correspondent Four-and-a-half-years work and £6,500,000 expenditure bear fruit today in a new range of cars that will focus the spotlights on Britain’s Jaguar stands at the Paris and London motor shows this autumn. Unquestionably the most re- fined, safest and advanced saloons ever produced by Sir [...]
September 26, 1968
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Archive : The Aggressive Apprentice
DAILY MIRROR Donald Gresham Stokes, of British Leyland, is the most successful product of a vanishing, British breed. He is the 4d.-an-hour engineering apprentice turned £45,000-a-year top executive. The twist in the Stokes story is that his own climb has pulled the company up as well. The apprentice’s rise has conjured up, out of a [...]
September 25, 1968
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Archive : Welcome in the unions for Turnbull’s Leyland post
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midlands Industrial Correspondent Sir Donald Stokes’s appointment of 42-year-old George Turnbull to one of the key British Leyland Motor Corporation posts, was welcomed yesterday both by his new colleagues at Longbridge and by top union officials. Mr. Turnbull will harness the potential of the former B.M.C. plants to. a modern marketing conception. [...]
September 19, 1968
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Archive : Stokes Takes Over At British Leyland
Eight months after the merger, a change of chairman. By CLIFFORD WEBB Eight months after he took his British Motor Holdings group into the merger with Leyland. which produced the gigantic British Leyland Motor Corporation, Sir George Harriman last night announced his retirement from the chairmanship of the new group. He becomes president and Sir [...]
September 18, 1968
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Archive : Girling Brake Strike
DAILY MIRROR Nearly 3,000 Rover workers at two Birmingham factories were made idle yesterday following an unofficial strike by fifty-four gearbox assemblers at Rovers’ subsidiary factory at Greet , Birmingham. Production of Land-Rovers was at a standstill. Several hundred other Rover workers at Solihull were also laid off because of the Girling dispute.
September 17, 1968
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Archive : 200 strikers may dislocate car industry
THE GUARDIAN By GEOFFREY WHITELEY Strikes by fewer than two hundred workers at two component factories were pushing the car industry last night towards dislocation and widespread lay-offs. More than eight thousand workers were out of work because of disputes at the Girling Brake factories in Cheshire and Monmouthshire. In Coventry, 2,000 assembly workers at [...]
September 11, 1968
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Archive : Strikes
THE GUARDIAN A spokesman for Jaguar cars at Coventry, said last night that 2,000 car assembly workers had been told not to report for duty today but to wait for a further announcement. The lay-off , he said, was due to a shortage of car brakes resulting from a strike over pay by 100 men [...]
September 9, 1968
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Archive : Baxter quits British Leyland
Raymond Baxter, well known BBC commentator, is to quit his job at British Leyland. For nearly two years he has been director of motoring publicity at the British Motor Corporation, now merged into the new combine British Leyland. He will receive an undisclosed amount of compensation. He intends to maintain “an active association” with the [...]
September 7, 1968
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