Archive for May, 1970
Archive : Stokes Set On Expansion At Coventry
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland, is taking a firm line in talks with the Government about a major expansion of Jaguar at Coventry, and not in a northern development area. The intention is to double Jaguar’s existing capacity to around 50,000 cars a year. I understand that Lord [...]
May 29, 1970
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Archive : £100,000 Leyland profit: strikes and costs blamed
By JOHN ARMYTAGE British Leyland, Britain’s biggest motor group, yesterday announced that it had made only £100,000 for its shareholders in the first half of its current year. This compares with £9.5m. in the first half of the previous year. Lord Stokes, the chairman, blames industrial disputes and rising costs of wages and materials for [...]
May 28, 1970
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Archive : Leyland warning rejected
A weekend warning by Raymond J. Smart, managing director of British Leyland’s truck and tractor division at Bathgate, West Lothian that the plant might close down because of continued industrial trouble, was rejected last night by shop stewards as “an exercise in industrial blackmail”. Mr. Smart had issued a letter individually to the 5,000 workers [...]
May 26, 1970
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Archive : Austin Maxi sales climb into top gear
A massive rescue operation carried out on British Leyland’s Austin Maxi car is paying off. Sales of the car dropped to less than 700 in December but are now approaching 3,500 a month,the highest since it was launched a year ago. When home market penetration figures for last month are published within the next few [...]
May 22, 1970
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Archive : Will Leyland pass its five-year test?
THE OBSERVER With rumours rife and the shares flat on their backs, ROGER EGLIN looks at Britain’s troubled car giant. No flags flew last week over British Leyland’s Berkeley Square command post to celebrate Lord Stokes second anniversary as chief executive of Britain’s biggest car manufacturer. The lack of fuss is scarcely surprising. B.L.M.C shares, [...]
May 17, 1970
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Archive : Strikes
There was hope, however. last night for the 7,200 employees laid off at Austin Morris’ and Pressed Steel Fisher. Drivers on strike for the past fortnight at Howard Tenens, Swindon, agreed to return to work to- morrow. Their strike stopped deliveries of body panels from PS.F.. at Swindon to Austin Morris car plants at Cowley, [...]
May 5, 1970
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Archive : Pilkington Glass strike
THE GUARDIAN Repercussions of the strike continue to be felt in the car industry. As 500 men returned to work at the Land-Rover plant in Solihull after being laid off because of another dispute, 300 others were laid off because of shortage of glass from Pilkington’s These workers were from the Rover production lines. Work [...]
May 2, 1970
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Archive : The Affair Of The Missing Jaguars
Impatient at delays in delivery of Jaguar’s highly successful XJ6 model, a party of Swiss businessmen clients staged a demonstration outside B.L.M.C.’s Berkeley Square showrooms in Mayfair yesterday. As demonstrations go these days it was a peaceful affair. The score or so of smartly dressed bankers and industrialists, who had each paid 500 Swiss francs [...]
May 1, 1970
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