Month: March 1961

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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’ […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]