Month: February 1962

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]