Month: January 1962

Finance, Industry, and Commerce By Our City Editor Just how bad was the financial position of Standard-Triumph International when it was taken over last year by Leylands is now revealed […]

Compensation totalling £110,000 was paid by Leyland Motors to the directors and some 300 senior and semi-senior staff of Standard Triumph International after the share-exchange takeover in June 1961; Because […]

CAR FACTORIES WANT MORE WORKERS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD. JAN. 19 Morris Motors, one of the British Motor Corporation factories at Oxford, and the neighbouring car-body manufacturers. Pressed Steel Company, […]

BMC PRESS RELEASE To the British Press. Gentlemen: You may like to have the following information for reference. In view of the popular usage of the word ‘mini’ when referring […]

DAILY EXPRESS CAR MEN STRIKE Production at the Rover motor companies main plant in Solihull, Warwickshire, was hit yesterday when a strike by 80 men led to 2,500 being laid […]

The fall of £1,212,000, or 26 per cent, to £3,412,230 in Leyland Motors net profits for the year to last September is disappointing in spite of the fact that the […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD. JAN. 8 The Pressed Steel Company at Cowley has offered back jobs to about 500 of its workers-the last of those declared redundant during the recession […]

MORRIS MINOR TO STAY IN PRESENT FORM FROM OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT An announcement by the British Motor Corporation yesterday assured the continuance in its present form of the Morris Minor […]

INFLUENZA MAKES 800 JAGUAR STAFF IDLE Jaguar Cars, of Coventry, laid off 800 employees yesterday because of absenteeism in the supply department. A number of workers were away with influenza […]

GLASGOW HERALD FOUR MILLION AUSTINS The Austin Motor Companies four millionth vehicle, an A40 MK2 saloon, left the Longbridge, Birmingham, assembly lines during the first days production of 1962. It […]

From Our Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 31 Rolls-Royce and the British Motor Corporation are examining the possibility of technical collaboration, a statement by both concerns announced tonight. The two companies consider […]