Archive for November, 1969
Archive : Lowry joins Leyland
British Leyland, Britain’s biggest motor group, said yesterday that one of the country’s top industrial relations experts, Pat Lowry, director of the Engineering Employers’ Federation, was joining the group to head the effort to tackle its huge strike problem. Leyland and the federation said in a joint announcement that Mr. Lowrv, 49, would become Leyland’s [...]
November 28, 1969
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Archive : PSF workers go on strike
As Standard-Triumph workers at Liverpool returned yesterday at the end of their 11-week strike, another big British Leyland car plant was brought to a complete standstill by a wildcat stoppage involving only 18 men. The strikers operate panels which electronically control the flow of bodies and other components to the assembly lines at Austin Morris, [...]
November 12, 1969
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Archive : Triumph men will go back today
The 11 week long unofficial strike at the Standard-Triumph car body plant on Merseyside, which has made 11,000 car workers idle and cost £11m in production, is over. The 1,150 men decided at a mass meeting in Liverpool yesterday to return to work today. Their decision came at the end of a 1 1/2 hour [...]
November 11, 1969
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Archive : Workers save cars in Rover blaze
A fierce fire at the £10m. Rover car factory in Solihull, Warwickshire, last night, was tackled by more than 50 firemen in the trim shop area where new vehicles are assembled. After early reports put the damage as up to £200,000, Lord Stokes, chairman and managing director of British Leyland. said later: “We hope it [...]
November 7, 1969
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Archive : Lord Stokes speak up for the Maxi
DAILY EXPRESS By Basil Cardew There are two Maxis in our lives, the ankle length fashion and the 5-seat, 5-door, and 5-gear car. Both slow starters. Whatever view you take of the clothes, the best that can be said for the car is that it has been doggedly defended by Lord Stokes, head of the [...]
November 1, 1969
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