Archive for June, 1973
Archive : Leyland designs new car in Australia
By Stuart Marshall A new British Leyland car announced today has been designed, developed and is being made in Australia but will be available in Britain next year, priced between £3,500 and £4,000. Called the Leyland P76. it is the first car to bear the Leyland name since the famous Straight Eight of the 1920s. [...]
June 26, 1973
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Archive : Strife in Pamplona
From Our Correspondent Madrid British Leyland locked out about 1,700 workers at the week end in the strike-ridden city of Pamplona. During an uneasy truce between Government officials, the managements of a number of factories and workers, the total of strikers fell from 20,000 to about 7,000 by yesterday. But British Leyland’s Authi plant locked [...]
June 25, 1973
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Archive : Rover P5B ends today
On this day the last 15 Rover P5Bs came off the production at Solihull. Rover P5 development story Rover P5 – the Greatest
June 22, 1973
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Archive : Jaguar XJ40 in front of the board
JAGUAR BOARD MEETING Subject XJ40 Model “It has been decided to alter the clay styling model and this work is proceeding. Mr England congratulated Mr Knight on his efforts and the fact that he had virtually lived on the job for the last three months.”
June 21, 1973
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Archive : The strikes are over
By R. W. Shakespeare The crippling three week-long strike by 80 men at British Leyland’s Austin-Morris car plant at Cowley, which caused the lay-off of 12,000 other workers and production losses of around £20m, is over. Yesterday the 80 striking plant attendants voted to accept terms negotiated by their unions and to return to work [...]
June 21, 1973
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Archive : Triumph car output disrupted by strike over time needed to change into overalls
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland ran into fresh labour trouble at its Triumph car plant at Coventry yesterday This came on the eve of a crucial meeting which the corporation hopes may lead to a settlement of a dispute which has stopped all car producation and made more than 12,000 workers idle at the [...]
June 20, 1973
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Archive : Jaguar XJ40
JAGUAR – XJ40 full scale models at Browns Lane.
June 19, 1973
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Archive : Triumph Dolomite
TRIUMPH – Today the Triumph Dolomite Sprint was announced.
June 19, 1973
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Archive : Sabotage, Say Leyland Chiefs
DAILY MIRROR By Bryn Jones British Leyland accused shop stewards last night of “deliberately sabotaging’ a meeting which could have ended a crippling three-week-old strike. More than 12,000 Leyland workers at Cowley, Oxford have been made idle, by the strike by eighty plant attendants. But when two top trade union chiefs arrived in Oxford to [...]
June 16, 1973
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Archive : Strikers return
At British Leyland’s transmission plant at Ward End, Birmingham, the toolroom men agreed last night to return to work, a management spokesman said. The 1,500 men laid off were being recalled for the nightshift on the basis that “realistic discussions” between the union and management would start soon. Two thousand craftsmen at the main Austin-Morris [...]
June 12, 1973
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Archive : Strikes affect BLMC again
In the most damaging stoppage 80 plant attendants at Austin Morris, Cowley, yesterday unanimously rejected a company pay offer and voted to continue the strike which has already cost £8m worth of Marinas, Maxis and 1100/1300 GTs. They are not due to meet again before next Friday. By that time the 12,000 men laid off [...]
June 9, 1973
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Archive : BLMC awaits Spain’s approval for switch in output programme
By Roger Vielvoye British Leyland Motor Corporation has completed the negotiations for a complex reorganization of its manufacturing facilities in Spain and is now awaiting Spanish government approval to put them into operation. The deal involves British Leyland’s sale of its 25.1 per cent holding in the ENASA commercial vehicle company and its acquisition of [...]
June 8, 1973
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Archive : Dispute which halted Allegro line is over
Dispute which halted Allegro line is over The 650 press operators at British Leyland body plant at Swindon, whose unofficial strike halted output of the Allegro car, decided at a mass meeting yesterday to return to work.
June 7, 1973
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Archive : A week of massive disruption
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent The motor industry faces another week of massive disruption, with strikes halting production at British Leyland and Chrysler car plants and threatening to do the same at Vauxhall. More than 20,000 workers are already idle. British Leyland losses are mounting at the daily rate of 1-7m, worth of cars. [...]
June 4, 1973
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Archive : Longbridge at a standstill
By Clifford Webb Nearly 20,000 car workers were idle yesterday as labour disputes already affecting British Leyland’s Austin-Morris plant at Longbridge spread to Austin-Morris Cowley stopping all car production. With new car sales in Britain still running at record levels, British Leyland is losing £1.7m worth of cars for everyday the strikes continue. It is [...]
June 2, 1973
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Archive : Longbridge plant shutdown halts Allegro and makes 14,000 idle
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent More than 14,000 car workers were laid off at British Leyland’s Longbridge plant yesterday because of a series of labour disputes. Production of the new Austin Allegro, the Mini, 1100/ 1300 and 1800 was at a standstill. A company spokesman described the shutdown as “a tragedy”. It came at [...]
June 1, 1973
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