Month: August 1959

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 26 Production of the British Motor Corporation’s new small cars, the Austin seven and the Morris Mini-Minor, is threatened by a strike of 35 […]

The ADO15 MINI IS LAUNCHED TODAY Some extracts from the Times description of the new car. FROM OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT The British Motor Corporation officially announce today the entirely new […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, AUG. 23 Fines of £2 are to be imposed on members of the Transport and General Workers’ Union at Oxford who worked at the Cowley factory […]

BMC – Today and the next day, BMC let the media test the Mini at Chobham in Surrey.

From Our Correspondent OXFORD, AUG. 13 There was further trouble at the Morris Motors factory at Cowley today within a few hours of the 3,500 strikers returning to work after […]

From Our Labour Correspondent The strike at the Morris Motors plant at Cowley, Oxford, was called off last night after six more hours of discussions by representatives of the employers […]

Pickets from 11 unions showed restraint today as members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union reported for work at Morris Motors. An emergency meeting of the Oxford A.E.U. district committee and […]

From Our Special Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 10 A 24-hour token strike at the five British Motor Corporation factories in the Birmingham area was recommended tonight by a meeting here of […]

From Our Correspondent OXFORD, AUG. 9 Attitudes hardened today towards the strike at Morris Motors, Cowley, over the dismissal of a chief shop steward, Mr Frank Horsman, of the Transport […]

FROM OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT When the annual holidays at Morris Motors’ plant at Cowley, Oxford, end on Monday, the strike of 3,000 members of the Transport and General Workers’ Union […]

MORRIS STRIKE TALKS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, Aug. 4 Executive officers of the 10 unions with membership in the Cowley factory of Morris Motors will meet at Transport House, London, […]