Archive for March, 1975
Archive : Farewell to a teaboy that reached the top
DAILY EXPRESS Fifty years ago Bernard Smith joined the Rover Car Company as a seven shilling a week tea boy. He retires next week as £20,000 a year chairman of the company. Alfred Bernard Smith – “A.B.” to those that know him – spoke yesterday of the past – a past which has made the [...]
March 29, 1975
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Archive : A Beauty off the drawing board
DAILY EXPRESS By David Benson A car designer who looks more like the lead guitarist in a pop group is today the toast of the British motor industry. This is Harris Mann the 36 year old Londoner who styled the superb new Austin-Morris-Wolseley range with its sleek eighties wedged shaped look. This week he told [...]
March 27, 1975
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Archive : The ADO71 Austin/Morris/Wolseley 18-22 series is announced
DAILY MIRROR Sharp Wedge Is A Winner By Patrick Mennem British Leyland launch a wedge shaped attack on the highly competitive medium sized car market today. A new range of Austin – Morris and Wolseley cars is aimed at changing the middle aged image of the corporations middle price cars. The models, known as the [...]
March 26, 1975
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Archive : Face To Face With The Man In The Hot Seat
DAILY MIRROR The Government’s industrial adviser, Sir Don Ryder, and his team of experts are due to report this week on the future of the troubled motor giant, British Leyland. In advance of that report the company’s chairman, Lord Stokes, gave Mirror City Editor Robert Head this exclusive interview. The shadow of the sack hangs [...]
March 25, 1975
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Archive : Consultation’ rules for £50m Leyland loans
By Anthony Rowley There must be consultations with the Government before British Leyland negotiates any “major” pay awards in future. This condition is included in the terms announced yesterday of the £50m of bank loans which the Government is guaranteeing to the motor corporation. Conditions attaching to the guarantee also include the need for consultation [...]
March 21, 1975
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Archive : Leyland puts another 5000 on short time
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland yesterday announced more redundancies and short-time working in some of its big plants, bringing the total number of redundancies in the pipeline to some 3,000 and the number of workers on short time throughout its operations to more than 30,000. At the SU Carburettors plant in Birmingham 730 workers [...]
March 20, 1975
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Archive : That’s our baby, Italian style
DAILY EXPRESS By Leslie Nichol Britain, which gave the world the Mini, is almost certain to get another one, from Italy. At a time when everybody is demanding economical motoring, the Italians have produced an exciting new version of the masterpiece created 15 years ago by Sir Alec Issigonis. Marketed by Leyland Innocenti, British Leyand’s [...]
March 18, 1975
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Archive : British Leyland toolmakers end strike
By R. W. Shakespeare The unofficial strike by British Leyland toolmakers, which has cost the company about £15m worth of lost production during the past month and led to the cancellation of a valuable overseas contract, is to end on Monday. A majority of the 600 strikers decided at a mass meeting at the Castle [...]
March 14, 1975
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Archive : Leyland at head of British sales league
By Clifford Webb British Leyland sold a remarkable 44.8 per cent of the 112,000 cars registered in Britain in February, it was announced yesterday. Sales of British Leyland cars were 6 per cent better than in January, and the group’s highest market penetration since the 45 per cent achieved in exceptionally favourable circumstances in April, [...]
March 11, 1975
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Archive : 200 strikers face redundancy as British Leyland loses contract
By R. W. Shakespeare Many of the British Leyland toolroom workers whose unofficial strike is seriously disrupting car production will find themselves without jobs when the dispute is over. About a third of the 600 men on strike over demands for pay rises of more than £12 a week are likely to be declared redundant [...]
March 10, 1975
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Archive : 6000 Jaguar workers laid off again by strike
By R. W. Shakespeare Production of Jaguar cars at British Leyland’s Coventry plant halted again last night and the 6,000 workers were laid off. The plant has worked only four days this week after being at a standstill for more than two weeks, because of the unofficial strike by 600 toolroom workers at Castle Bromwich. [...]
March 7, 1975
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Archive : Leyland wants cut of 400 jobs at Coventry works
By Clifford Webb British Leyland wants 400 of the 4,000 staff and manual employees at its Coventry engine works to accept voluntary redundancy. Confirming this last night, a company spokesman said: “The 400 redundancies have become necessary following a reduction in order schedules from British Leyland companies and also from outside customers who buy from [...]
March 6, 1975
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