Month: January 1960

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 27 Car production at the Austin factory at Longbridge will be brought to a standstill and 18,000 workers laid off by tomorrow night if […]

From Our Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 26 A complete stoppage of British Motor Corporation car production is threatened by an official strike of 55 maintenance electricians at the corporation’s tractor and […]

From Our Special Correspondent The British Motor Corporation, in a long awaited announcement of the outcome of the negotiations with the Government over their £49m. expansion programme, disclosed yesterday that […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD. JAN. 20 A meeting of the 450 strikers from Morris Motors (Radiators Branch) decided this afternoon to return to work. The night shift will report tonight. […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, JAN. 19 An unofficial strike of 300 hourly paid men and women at the radiators branch of Morris Motors Ltd., Oxford, who are asking for 6d. […]

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT GLASGOW. JAN. 19 An announcement that Scotland and Wales are to benefit substantially from the Government’s desire to divert expansion of the motor car industry from […]

Company Results Leyland Motors’ preliminary statement, issued yesterday, revealed an increase in group profits of more than £800,000, while the directors are raising the first and final payment on the […]

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT BROMSGROVE, JAN. 11 Representatives of 2,000 residents at Cofton Hackett, Worcestershire, a village on the industrial fringe of Birmingham, said today that they would fight at […]

Leyland’s Private Aircraft Implementing its policy of using the most efficient business aids, Leyland Motors will shortly operate its own private aircraft for the use of the company’s directors and […]

ROVER STRIKE OVER Three hundred production workers who began an unofficial strike on Tuesday at the Rover Motor Company’s factory at Acocks Green. Birmingham, returned to work yesterday.

900 LAID OFF About 900 men were laid off yesterday at the Rover Motor Company’s factories in the Birmingham area because of a strike on Tuesday by 300 production workers […]

ANOTHER STRIKE AT ROVER FACTORY About 300 production workers walked out of the Rover company’s factory at Acocks Green, Birmingham, yesterday. It was the second strike within a week over […]

ROVER PAINT SHOP STRIKE ENDS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 1 The unofficial strike of 22 paint shop workers at the Solihull factory of the Rover Company, Ltd., ended […]

DAILY MIRROR Rover Strike At the Rover car factory at Solihull, near Birmingham, 2,200 production workers are now laid off because of an unofficial strike of twenty-two paint shop workers […]