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Month: February 1962

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Archive : Strike makes 2700 Minicar men idle

28 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 27 Production of the British Motor Corporation’s minicars, the Austin Seven and the Morris Mini-minor. has been stopped by a strike of 550 workers at […]

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Archive : Jaguar production recovers

28 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, FEB. 27 Jaguar car production is almost back to the normal 530 cars a week. The recent seven-day strike-at the height of work on a […]

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Archive : Most Morris cars to be assembled in Belgium

24 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

BRUSSELS, Feb. 23. All makes of Morris cars, with the exception of Riley and Wolseley, will be assembled in Belgium from the early summer. Morris cars are now imported fully-built […]

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Archive : Jaguar news

17 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN Jaguar Some 1,100 of the 4,500 Jaguar workers in Coventry who returned to work on Wednesday alter a week long strike, were idle again yesterday. They have been […]

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Archive : Jaguar lay-offs

16 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN Jaguar Lay-offs A spokesman at the Jaguar plant at Coventry said yesterday that a further 300 men in the paint, body, and phosphating shops of the factory would […]

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Archive : Jaguar lays off 800 workers

15 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

JAGUAR LAY OFF 800 WORKERS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, FEB. 14 Jaguars tonight laid off 800 of the 4,500 returning strikers because of “considerable dislocation caused by the stoppage, particularly […]

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Archive : Two men get lost and end strike

14 February 1962 Keith Adams 4

DAILY MIRROR 2 Men Get Lost And End Strike Two men agreed yesterday not to turn up for work for a fortnight—and ended the week-old strike of 4500 Jaguar car […]

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Archive : Union sets precedent

14 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN UNION SETS PRECEDENT Ending Jaguar strike By our own Reporter An important precedent has been set by the method of settling the dispute at the Jaguar factory in […]

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Archive : Jaguar workers end strike

14 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR MIDLAND CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, FEB. 13 Flattered by the congratulations of four local trade union officials, Jaguar car workers today voted to end the dispute in which 4,500 of […]

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Archive : Jaguar strike may end today

13 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR MIDLAND CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, FEB. 12 The strike at Jaguar Cars Ltd may well end tomorrow, I understand. In a park beside Warwick Road about 4,500 men will meet […]

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Archive : Strike-breakers’ future in doubt?

12 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

DAILY MIRROR Lines and Diskin, who earn about £33 a week, can be either fined or expelled from the union. Mr Lines, married with three children, said last night: “Of […]

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Archive : Discipline for two strike-breakers?

12 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

Strikers at the Jaguar car factory in Coventry will consider tonight the question of disciplinary action against the two men who reported for work during the one-day stoppage on Monday. […]

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Archive : Union to interview the two who worked

12 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

UNION TO INTERVIEW THE TWO WHO WORKED FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, FEB. 11 The two men with whom the 4,500 employees of Jaguar Cars, Coventry, refused to work because they […]

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Archive : Jaguar gives up space in 50 ships to competitors

10 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

Jaguar Cars, Ltd., of Coventry, stated yesterday that because of the production stoppage and strike by their 4,500 employees they had been forced to give up to their competitors car […]

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Archive : Thousands join strikes over non-strikers

9 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN THOUSANDS JOIN STRIKES OVER NON-STRIKERS Jaguar men vote to stay out Refusal by managements either to sack or suspend men who worked during Monday ‘s national engineering strike […]

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Archive : Swindon settlement

9 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

SWINDON SETTLEMENT Other industrial news yesterday arising out of Monday’s strike included: – Swindon A dispute at the Pressed Steel Company’s car bodies factory at Stratton St. Margaret, Swindon, over […]

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Archive : Jaguar men decide to stay out

9 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR MIDLAND CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 8 An investigation into the damage the strike at Jaguar Cars Ltd., Coventry, will do to the firm’s production schedules began today. The inquiry […]

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Archive : Strike hits dollar Jags

8 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

DAILY MIRROR A lightening strike by 4,800  men stopped the Jaguar car plant at Coventry yesterday — and put a £22,500,000 export order in danger. American dealers who placed the […]

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Archive : £22m US order imperilled by walkout

8 February 1962 Keith Adams 0

Home News FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, FEB. 7 Jaguar Cars, Ltd., whose production stopped today when 4,500 employees walked out because the company refused to dismiss two men who worked […]

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