Month: May 1962

Electricians At B.M.C. To Stay Out From Our Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, MAY 25 After meetings today of men from the British Motor Corporation’s tractor and transmissions factory at Birmingham, where 55 […]

B.M.C. “Held To Ransom” From Our Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, MAY 23 The British Motor Corporation, facing,”strangulation” at two of its largest factories in Birmingham and Oxford, issued an official statement today […]

Oxford Facing Stoppage FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MAY 22 All car assembly at Morris Motors, Oxford, will be brought to a standstill by Thursday morning, and more than 3,000 workers […]

Austin Plant To Stop Today From Our Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, MAY 21 All car production at the British Motor Corporation’s Austin factory at Longbridge will stop tomorrow morning, and 4,600 workers […]

THE GUARDIAN JAGUAR PROTEST OVER STOPPAGES Effect on exports In a protest over a strike of 400 trim shop workers which has halted car assembly a spokesman for Jaguar Cars […]

STRIKES STOP BMC WORKS Jaguar men out The threat to car production in the Midlands grew yesterday with strikes at two BMC subsidiary factories in Birmingham, a second walk-out at […]

THE GUARDIAN Jaguar Dispute About 850 assembly workers at the Coventry factory of Jaguar Cars Ltd. were sent home yesterday after a walk-out by 400 trim shop employees over a […]

WALKOUT STOPS JAGUAR FACTORY Production stopped at the Coventry factory of Jaguar Cars yesterday when 700 day workers walked out on strike protesting over the progress on a wage claim […]

The British Motor Corporation announces the following further appointments: Mr C. W. Baker, home marketing coordinator of the corporation becomes manager of home market coordination. Mr W. H. Hooper, commercial […]

Business Changes Three key home sales appointments are announced by the British Motor Corporation as a consequence of the retirement of Mr Donald Harrison as director of home sales. Mr […]

BACK TO NORMAL AT COWLEY WORKS Work was back to normal yesterday at the Morris Motor factory at Cowley. Oxford, after Tuesday’s strike by 10 paint shop workers who complained […]

DAILY EXPRESS 500 CAR MEN IDLE Five hundred British Motor Corporation assembly workers at Morris Motors, Oxford, were sent home yesterday because of a strike by 10 men in the […]