Month: December 1959

The directors of Standard-Triumph International yesterday announced that agreement in principle had been reached with Hall Engineering (Holdings) with a view to acquiring the motor car body building and die-making […]

are taking place between the directors of Standard-Triumph International and Alforder Newton Ltd., of Hemel Hempstead, with a view to Standard- Triumph acquiring the share capital of Alforder Newton for […]

JAGUAR WORKERS GO BACK The 64 final finishing line workers at Jaguar Cars Ltd., Coventry, who had walked out on strike three times since last Thursday, returned yesterday and stayed […]

BACK TO WORK-OUT AGAIN By our Correspondents The 64 final assembly line workers at the Coventry factory of Jaguar Cars who went on strike on Thursday and Friday causing 3,000 […]

Work is to be resumed on Monday at one of the two Midland car factories where thousands of workers have had to be sent home because of unofficial strikes. The […]

An unofficial strike of 600 vehicle builders that broke out yesterday at the Birmingham factory of Mulliners, Ltd., will make 10,000 workers idle at the Standard Motor Company’s works at […]

THE GUARDIAN In Birmingham yesterday 2,000 men were laid off at the British Motor Corporation car body building factory of Fisher and Ludlow, after a strike of paintshop workers. Forty […]

THE GUARDIAN The two hundred and fifty thousandth Land Rover has been produced at the Solihull (Warwickshire) factory of the Rover Company, Ltd. Mr Geoffrey Lloyd Dixon, executive director (sales), […]