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Archive : Strikes
FOUR-DAY WEEK FOR 700 WORKERS From Monday 700 workers at the factory of Alford and Alder at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, will be on a four-day week. it was announced last […]
Month: August 1961
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Archive : BMC Vehicle Production Down 10 Per Cent
NEWS FROM INDUSTRY Production of vehicles by the British Motor Corporation declined to 601,000 in the year ended July 31 from 669,000 in 1959-60. Output in 1958-59 was 486,000. The […]
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Archive : Standards To Cut Staff And Costs
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 […]
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Archive : BMC memo
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 […]
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Archive : New Standard Chief To Meet Unions
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 […]
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Archive : Joint Talks On Car Firm Suggested
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. […]
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Archive : Workers wary at Standard
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 […]
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Archive : A Motor Manufacturer WHO Likes To See For Himself
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 […]
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Archive : Reorganizing Standard Triumph
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 […]
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Archive : Standard-Triumph upheavals
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.