Archive for August, 1975
Archive : Innocenti layoffs rota to replace dismissals
From John Earle Rome, Aug 29 Leyland Innocenti today reached an agreement with the Italian metalworkers’ unions which overcomes for the immediate future a dispute about its plans to dismiss one-third of the labour force. Instead of the redundancies the workers will take it in turns until the end of December to be temporarily laid [...]
August 30, 1975
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Archive : Leyland to phase out range of Guy lorries
By Edward Townsend British Leyland is to phase out production of its famous 10-year-old Guy range of lorries by the middle of next year, the company announced yesterday. The move, part of a rationaiization of the company’s lorry and bus programme, was revealed to Guy distributors and union representatives at Leyland’s Wolverhampton plant which, from [...]
August 21, 1975
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Essay : The great Leyland tragedy
Donald Stokes concluded his chairmans statement in the first accounts of British Leyland Motor Corporation back in 1968 with the following paragraph: ‘The world is looking to see whether British Leyland can match up to the international challenge. I believe it can — the future potenial of the corporation is enormous. We can exploit it [...]
August 18, 1975
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Archive : My golden handshake by sacked car chief
DAILY EXPRESS MY GOLDEN HANDSHAKE BY SACKED CAR CHIEF John Barber, the sacked boss of British Leyland, left his office for the last time yesterday and talked his “golden handshake.” “The £300,000 everyone has mentioned is a fairy tale”, he said. “People have just multiplied my annual salary of £42,000 by the eight remaining years [...]
August 16, 1975
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Archive : Barber dismissed
Mr John Barber and Mr John Simon, the two most senior casualties of the Ryder Report on British Leyland and the company’s subsequent reorganization, were yesterday formally dismissed. Both men held service contracts and no compensation has yet been agreed. Mr Barber, formerly managing director of the old company, British Leyland Motor Corporation, was paid [...]
August 15, 1975
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Archive : Ryder – my faith in Leyland
DAILY EXPRESS LORD RYDER: MY FAITH IN LEYLAND By John McCormick British Leyland can become one of the nation’s greatest assets. That is the view of the Government’s Industrial adviser Lord Ryder – the man accused by MPs of treating taxpayers money like confetti. He was speaking for the first time about his controversial multi-million [...]
August 14, 1975
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Archive : MP’s savage Ryder report
The financial and organizational foundations of the new state-owned British Leyland motor company were called in question yesterday in a report by the Commons trade and industry sub-committee. Members of the committee said the Ryder plan, on which the company is based, contained fundamental weaknesses and was inherently dangerous. By Edward Townsend Business News Staff [...]
August 13, 1975
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Archive : Leyland parts strike ends after stopping 18,000 jobs
By R. W. Shakespeare An eight-week old strike which has made 18.000 British Leyland workers idle and cost more than £25m worth of lost output is to end on Monday. A meeting yesterday of the 800 workers who have been on strike from one of the company’s key component plants at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, voted [...]
August 9, 1975
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Archive : Leyland stewards accept participation plan
BY Clifford Webb A delegate meeting of more than 400 British Levland shop stewards and national union officials yesterday approved the new management’s proposals for implementing the Ryder Committee’s recommendations on worker participation. The Ryder Report emphasized that effective worker participation was fundamental to the success of the reorganized motor group. At a press conference [...]
August 7, 1975
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Archive : Strike grip on Leyland tightens
THE GUARDIAN By Geoffrey Whiteley British Leyland’s most troublesome strike for some time – a seven week-old dispute at its Hemel Hempstead components factory ~ has now made nearly 16,000 workers idle and more may be laid off by the end of this week unless the stoppage ends. The strike is by 800 workers who [...]
August 6, 1975
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Archive : Mr Bernard Jackman resigns from Rover-Triumph
Mr Bernard Jackman, 62, managing director of British Leyland’s Rover-Triumph group, has resigned. He was appointed in 1973. He said in a statement yesterday that his decision to leave after some 70 years of family association with the Rover Company should cause no surprise. “I am naturally disappointed to see Rover-Triumph absorbed. British Leyland have [...]
August 6, 1975
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Archive : Stewards’ vote keeps Leyland strike going
By David Young Shop stewards at a British Leyland components plant yesterday used their votes to reverse the decision of a meeting of more than 600 workers to end an unofficial strike, which has resulted in the lay-off of 11000 car production workers and the loss of cars worth £15m. The strike at the Hemel [...]
August 1, 1975
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