Month: May 1960

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MAY 19 The 2,500 night shift workers at the Cowley factory of the Pressed Steel Company here are to work a four-an-a-half night week which will […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MAY 18 The reprimand of a new employee because of his standard of work led to stoppages by his workmates which resulted in 1,000 assembly line […]

May 18th 1960 Mr F. E. Higham, home sales director of Standard-Triumph Sales, has accepted an invitation to join the board of Hollingdrake Automobile. JAGUAR – On this day, Jaguar […]

The British Motor Corporation today announces a new production record. After 40 weeks of the current financial year, its output of vehicles has passed the total for the whole of […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MAY 10 Another unofficial stoppage-the second In nine days-at Morris Motors Ltd.. Cowley, resulted in 600 workers on the Oxford paint and production lines being sent […]

FROM OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT Lord Nuffield made one of his rare public appearances yesterday when he attended a luncheon at the Royal Automobile Club to receive on behalf of the […]

Morris Stoppage The Morris Minor production line at Morris Motors Ltd., Oxford, was halted yesterday by an unofficial strike of 26 trim shop workers. About 600 men had to be […]

An increase of 5s. 6d. a week has been awarded to 51 men at a British Motor Corporation factory where there was a five-day unofficial strike two months ago. The […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT KIRKBY, near LIVERPOOL, MAY 3 The British Motor Corporation officially “arrived” on Merseyside today when two 24-ton mechanical graders ploughed through a 50-acre wheat field which will […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MAY 2 An unofficial strike by 100 paint shop workers at Morris Motors Ltd., Oxford. caused 600 men on the Morris Oxford assembly line to be […]