Month: August 1961

Standard-Triumph International are to make drastic cuts in staff and in “non-productive expenditure.” Sir Henry Spurrier, chairman and managing director of Leyland Motors, Ltd., the parent concern, said yesterday that […]

BMC On this day a BMC note is written; ‘Order Of Priority Of Work Which Farina Are Doing For BMC.’ Subheading; ‘ADO15 Work To Be Completed By Farina.’ Mock-ups of […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, AUG. 28 A joint meeting between Mr. Stanley Markland, the new managing director of Standard-Triumph International, and local union officials will be held in Coventry on […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, AUG. 27 Leviand Motors have asked union leaders in Coventry to attend joint talks to discuss the future of the Leyland subsidiary Standard Triumph International Company. […]

THE GUARDIAN By our own Reporter Workers at the Standard-Triumph factories at Coventry, where wage rates are among the highest in the country, were concerned yesterday lest the board changes […]

Motor manufacturers whose lives have been bound up with the industry since its beginning become something more than leaders of a family business. They succeed to a dynasty. Sir Henry […]

From Our City Editor Mr A. S. Dick, managing director of Standard Triumph International since 1954, is to resign from the company, according to a statement from Leyland Motors last […]

STANDARD TRIUMPH – On this day at Standard Triumph, Sir Henry Spurrier and Stanley Markland use Harry Webster’s office to fire most of the Standard Triumph board.