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Month: June 1959

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Archive : 24-hour strike by Rover inspectors

25 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 24 Strike action by engineering inspectors, which has already halted production at the Jaguar factory at Coventry, broke out in another section of the […]

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Archive : 4500 Men Made Idle By Car Dispute

24 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD. JUNE 23 Production at Morris Motors, Oxford. came to a stop today because of a dispute over piecework rates at the Pressed Steel Company, who make […]

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Archive : Strike Brings Car Plant To Halt

23 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, JUNE 22 With the production level at 100 cars a day, Jaguar Cars Ltd., of Coventry, was brought to an indefinite standstill today; the firm’s entire […]

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Archive : Jaguar Strikers Meet Today

22 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, JUNE 21 A meeting is to take place tomorrow of 120 work inspectors on strike over a pay dispute at Jaguar Cars Ltd., Coventry, to discuss […]

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Archive : Two Strikes Over At Car Factories

20 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM. JUNE 19 Two strikes at car factories in the Birmingham area were called off today and the men involved agreed to return to work on Monday. […]

Archive

Archive : Another Strike At A B.M.C. Factory

19 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM Another strike at a British Motor Corporation factory broke out today when 80 tool setters at Morris Commercial Cars, Limited, Adderley Park, Birmingham, walked out in […]

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Archive : Birmingham Car Works Strikes Continue

18 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM Strikes continued at two motor factories here today and production was held up. Six hundred workers at the British Motor Corporation factory of Nuffield Metal Products, […]

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Archive : Talks Fail At Standards From Our Correspondent

17 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

After three hours of informal discussion no basis for agreement was reached today on a trade union request to the Standard Motor Company to withdraw dismissal notices issued on Monday […]

Archive

Archive : Triumph Herald Car Body Men To Go

16 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

The Standard Motor Company, of Coventry, announced tonight that they are to dismiss the entire body shop force working on their new Triumph Herald models rather than pay the wages […]

Archive

Archive : B.M.C. Appointments

13 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

Messrs T. A. E. Layborn and S. J. Wheeler have joined the board of the British Motor Corporation. Mr Layborn, deputy chairman of C T. Bowring and Layborn, was appointed […]

Archive

Archive : Strike called off

11 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

STRIKE CALLED OFF FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 10 Production is expected to be back to normal tomorrow at the British Motor Corporation’s Nuffield Metal Products factory, Washwood Heath, Birmingham […]

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Archive : Strikes Affect Two B.M.C. Factories

10 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

Two British Motor Corporation factories here were affected today by unofficial disputes and over 3,500 men were idle. A fresh strike by 220 press shop workers at the factory of […]

Archive

Archive : BMC factory strike

6 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

B.M.C. FACTORY STRIKE Production at Nuffield Metal Products, Ltd., Washwood Heath, Birmingham. a branch of the British Motor Corporation. was brought to a standstill yesterday because of an unofficial strike […]

Archive

Archive : 1200 men made idle by strike

5 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

Twelve hundred men from Morris Motors, Oxford. were sent home today after an unofficial strike by 42 paint-shop workers over a pay dispute. At another British Motor Corporation plant, the […]

Archive

Archive : Clerks go back

2 June 1959 Keith Adams 0

CLERKS GO BACK Several hundred clerks at the Standard Motor Company’s three main works at Coventry, who struck on Friday in protest at the dismissal of a works policeman, decided […]

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