Month: February 1960

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 24 More than 3,000 men were laid off at British Motor Corporation factories today as production was affected by the strike of 2,000 workers at […]

At Jaguar Cars Ltd., 500 employees had to be sent home after five men in the paint shop had walked out. The management said that negotiations could not take place […]

Standard Triumph International announced last night that their offer, worth over £500,000. for the Ordinary share capital of Alforder Newton, had been accepted by all the Ordinary shareholders. Alforder Newton […]

JAGUAR MEMO Chairman Sir William Lyons to Technical Director William Heynes on the 3.4 litre MK2 saloon the former test drove. “I do not believe there has been sufficient time […]

A settlement was announced on Saturday of the three-week-old strike by 39 sheet metal workers at the Rover Motor Company’s factory at Clay Lane, Coventry. The men went on strike […]

GLASGOW HERALD There was still deadlock yesterday in the two week old strike of 39 sheet metal workers in the Coventry branch works of the Rover Motor Company , Solihull […]

Between 1,800 and 2,000 workers at the Rover car factory at Solihull, near Birmingham, were laid off last night for the second time in a fortnight because of disruption of […]

The strike by members of the National Union of Vehicle Builders at Motor Panels, Ltd., Coventry, which has affected vehicle production at the Coventry factories of Bristol Siddeley and Standard-Triumph, […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT LIVERPOOL, FEB. 9 It was announced at Speke, Liverpool, today that the Standard-Triumph Group are to spend £11m. on new works on Merseyside. The scheme, part of […]

SECOND DISPUTE IN WEEK A second strike in a week hit production at the Birmingham car body building factory of Mulliners Ltd, yesterday.  About 300 vehicle builders stopped work after […]

After a two-week disruption of production estimated to have caused the loss of £12m. in turnover and about 25,000 vehicles, British Motor Corporation employees will be getting back to work […]

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 3 Only one car of the British Motor Corporation range, the Wolseley 6/99 remains in production and nearly 32,000 of the corporation’s 56,000 labour […]

Home News FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 2 One of the three strikes that have paralysed much of the Midland car industry was settled today. The 800 vehicle builders […]

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 1 Production by three of the ” Big Six” British motor manufacturers was today crippled by strikes-official and unofflcial-in which more than 31,000 workers […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, JAN. 31 Two thousand car production workers have been laid off indefinitely by Standard-Triumph at Coventry because of a strike by 600 National Union of Vehicle […]