Archive for September, 1969
Archive : 1300 men are laid-off as strike hits Rover
DAILY MIRROR The Rover motor company is to lay off 1,300 workers at its main factory today. It will also halt production of its 2000 and 3500 models at the factory—in Solihull, Warwicks. Behind Rovers’ decision is a strike at a branch factory at Cardiff, where gear boxes and axles are made. Assembly workers at [...]
September 26, 1969
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Archive : Strikes warning by Leyland boss
DAILY MIRROR By PATRICK MENNEM, Motoring Correspondent British Leyland boss Lord Stokes attacked industrial unrest within his company yesterday. He said that most disputes were unofficial and need never have happened. Despite “tremendous efforts” by the company to reach an understanding with the unions, it has been subjected to an unprecedented state of trouble, he [...]
September 25, 1969
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Archive : Leyland will spend £70m on expanding Cowley works
By GILES SMITH British Leyland, Britain’s biggest car group, will spend a total of £70m. in a major expansion of its Cowley, Oxford, car-making complex over the next few years, George Turnbull, managing director of the group’s Austin-Morris Division, announced yesterday. The expansion, Leyland’s biggest single spending item in a current total capital investment programme [...]
September 23, 1969
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Archive : 26 Phone Girls Gag A Car Factory
DAILY MIRROR By Paul Connew Twenty six girl switchboard operators staged a lightning strike yesterday-and threw a giant car factory into chaos. The “hello girls” refused to let telephone calls in or out of British Leyland’s Austin-Morris plant at Longbridge, Birmingham. Motor dealers, trying to place valuable order lists, were told by the girls: ” [...]
September 18, 1969
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Archive : Maxi drops to 2.5 pc of British market
By GILES SMITH The share of the British car market won by British Leyland’s new and much publicized Maxi , production of which will be cut back for the second time in a month later this month, dropped to less than 2.5 per cent in the three months following its April launch it was understood [...]
September 16, 1969
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Archive : Austin Maxi output to be cut again
A second cutback in Austin Maxi production at Oxford within a month will begin when the Morris Motors assembly plant re-opens on September 29 after the autumn week’s holiday. Planned output is now 1600 a week, but this is to drop to 1300. Day workers are to go on a four day week and the [...]
September 15, 1969
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Archive : Barbara acts in car strike
DAILY MIRROR Productivity Minister Barbara Castle stepped in last night over a pay strike at Standard Triumph, Liverpool, which has made 6,000 Midlands car workers idle. She met officials of the management and the Engineering Employers’ Federation. Mrs Castle is expected to see union leaders on Monday.
September 13, 1969
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Archive : Car body strike: 2500 more idle
DAILY EXPRESS The 11-day-old unofficial strike of car body workers at Standard-Triumph’s Liverpool plant caused another 2,500 production workers to be laid off at the company’s Coventry factory yesterday. A Standard Triumph spokesman said yesterday: “The jobs of all 12,000 of our company’s workmen in Coventry are threatened.”
September 6, 1969
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Archive : Triumph strikers stay out
British Leyland’s strike problems at first eased yesterday but then became more serious. In the morning, 130 storemen at the car body factory of Pressed Steel Fisher at Washwood Heath, Birmingham, decided to return to work and normal production was resumed after 2,400 other workers, who had been laid off, went back. But later 1150 [...]
September 5, 1969
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Archive : Fresh peace hopes in car plant disputes
By CLIFFORD WEBB. Midland Industrial Correspondent There were hopes last night that strike meetings taking place in Liverpool and Birmingham today will result in a return to work in two unofficial disputes which for the past week have seriously reduced production at British Leyland plants. With the possibility of an early return in mind. Standard-Triumph, [...]
September 4, 1969
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