A sympathy strike yesterday by 250 pieceworkers at the British Motor Corporation’s material handling factory of Fisher and Ludlow, at Coseley, Staffordshire, ended last night when the men decided to […]
FROM OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT At a time when most of the news about the motor industry is of reduced output and sales, it was encouraging yesterday to learn from Sir […]
Four hundred workers on the Land Rover assembly line at the Rover company’s car factory at Solihull, near Birmingham, were sent home yesterday after 120 sheet metal workers had struck […]
Patrick Mennem talks to ‘Mr Mini’ about tomorrows motors. While salesmen at the Motor show in London are busy selling cars of TODAY, designers are working hard on cars of […]
COMPANY NEWS Rover, the automobile manufacturers, have had a sharply better year and are raising the dividend to 9.5d. a 5s. share, from the equivalent of 8.1d. a share, after […]
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 18 Two of the three strikes which have been affecting British Motor Corporation factories ended today, and production of a number of models which have […]
CAR WORKERS REDUNDANT Nearly 60 men employed at the Speke factory, Liverpool, of Standard-Triumph International have been declared redundant. It is hoped the men will be re-employed later. 8,000 Men […]
More than 1,500 employees at the Morris Commercial factory, Adderley Park, were sent home yesterday because of a strike by 136 inspectors. Production of vans and commercial vehicles was virtually […]
Short-time working in the car industry has spread to the British Motor Corporation factories and to the Rover Company at Solihull. The B.M.C. announced yesterday that from Monday they are […]
BACK AT WORK Work was back to normal at Rover factories in Birmingham yesterday after two strikes which made 2,000 idle on Tuesday, the strikers agreeing to return for negotiations.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MALINES, Oct 4 Standard Triumph International (S.T.I.) marked the opening by the British Ambassador, Sir John Nicholls, of their new £250,000 factory here, 20 miles from […]
In a piecework dispute yesterday at the Rover factory at Perry Bar, Birmingham, which produces rear axle components, 370 stopped work. A management spokesman said that the factory supplied vital […]
350 ROVER MEN ON UNOFFICIAL STRIKE About 350 motor workers struck in Birmingham yesterday after the management was understood to have refused to re-time a job on a grinding machine. […]
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 2 The Friday night strikes at British Motor Corporation factories in Birmingham ended yesterday, exactly six months after they began. Originally 3,300 workers at three […]
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