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Month: March 1961

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Archive : Triumph order: check cars in factory

29 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

DAILY EXPRESS By Basil Cardew One of Britain’s big five car manufacturers today makes a determined bid to put a stop to hundreds of complaints from customers. Standard-Triumph of Coventry […]

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Archive : Five-Day Week At Morris Motors

27 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MARCH 26 New workers will be recruited at Morris Motors Ltd., Cowley, this week for the first time since the beginning of the recession in the […]

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Archive : Cowley Car Plant Back To Normal

22 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MARCH 21 Working will be normal at Morris Motors, Ltd., Cowley, next week for the first time since the start of the motor recession last autumn. […]

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Archive : Rover strikes

21 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN Nearly 3,00 workers were idle yesterday at Rover Motor Company factories in the Birmingham area. The main assembly lines were again idle at the parent factory at Solihull, […]

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Archive : 1500 Rover Men Go Back

17 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

Fifteen hundred employees at the Rover motor company components factories in Birmingham turned up for work yesterday after nine days idleness. They stopped work originally following a pay strike by […]

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Archive : E-type steals the show at Geneva

17 March 1961 Keith Adams 2

GENEVA Thursday Britain’s new E-type Jaguar was hailed by the Swiss press today as the “sensation” of the 31st Geneva International Motor Show. Sir William Lyons, chairman of the Jaguar […]

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Archive : Rover Strike is Official

16 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

The strike of 65 inspectors at the Rover Motor Company’s works at Acocks Green, Birmingham, was officially recognized yesterday by the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Transport and General Workers’ […]

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Archive : 1500 Car Workers Made Idle

15 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD. MARCH 14 More than 1,500 workers at Cowley were idle today because of a strike at the Pressed Steel Company which was holding up supplies of […]

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Archive : Strike By 200 Car Body Workers

14 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MARCH 13 A strike of 200 workers on British Motor Corporation car body production at the Pressed Steel Company, Cowley, today brought work to a standstill […]

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Archive : BMC Machinists to end strike

11 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

B.M.C. MACHINISTS TO END STRIKE The 73 machinists whose unofficial strike at the British Motor Corporation’s tractor and transmissions factory, Birmingham, caused 2,000 production workers at Birmingham and Oxford to […]

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Archive : 2000 Made Idle By BMC Strike

10 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

More than 2,000 British Motor Corporation workers have been made idle as a result of a strike of 73 machinists at the tractor and transmissions branch factory at Washwood Heath, […]

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Archive : Strike Stops Work On Mini-Minor

9 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MARCH 8 Three hundred and fifty men on the Mini-Minor line at the Cowley factory of Morris Motors Limited were sent home at noon today because […]

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Archive : Strike Spreads At Rovers

8 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

Strike Spreads At Rovers FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 7 A strike of inspectors at Birmingham branch factories of the Rover Motor Company spread today to a fourth factory, when […]

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Archive : Stanley Markland

6 March 1961 Keith Adams 0

Mr Stanley Markland has been appointed deputy managing director of Leyland Motors. Mr W. West, who previously held the positions of Leyland’s deputy chairman and managing director, continues to hold […]

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