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Month: September 1962

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Archive : Strike stops 1300 Jaguar workers

27 September 1962 Keith Adams 0

STRIKE STOPS 1,300 JAGUAR WORKERS Thirteen hundred production workers at Jaguar Cars Ltd., Coventry, were sent home yesterday after an unofficial one-day token strike by 20 men in the automatic […]

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Archive : A thousand car body men without work

25 September 1962 Keith Adams 0

1,000 Car Body Men Without Work FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD. SEPT. 24 About 1,000 car body workers at the Cowley factory of the Pressed Steel Company are without work today. […]

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Archive : Car body workers on short time

22 September 1962 Keith Adams 0

CAR BODY WORKERS ON SHORT TIME FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, SEPT. 21 The Pressed Steel Company’s factory at Oxford. which supplies a large section of the car industry with bodies […]

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Archive : Ford Cortina launched today

21 September 1962 Keith Adams 1

FORD – The Ford Cortina Mk1 is launched today.

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Archive : 24-hour strike by car factory clerks

21 September 1962 Keith Adams 0

24-HOUR STRIKE BY CAR FACTORY CLERKS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY. SEPT. 20 Standard Triumph International. Ltd.. remained silent on the effects of a 24-hour strike today by its 800 clerical […]

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Archive : MGB is launched today

20 September 1962 Keith Adams 0

BMC – Today the ADO23 MGB is launched.

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Archive : Changes In Leyland Motors Group

20 September 1962 Keith Adams 0

Changes In Leyland Motors Group Changes in the top organization of the Leyland Motors group are announced today following the Leyland-ACV merger. They include the retirement of Sir Henry Spurrier […]

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Archive : BMC opens factory In Scotland

18 September 1962 Keith Adams 1

Decisions on whether or not to increase production of tractors at the British Motor Corporation’s new plant at Bathgate, West Lothian, to 750 a week, providing 400 more jobs for […]

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Archive : Leyland Chairman On Merger Benefits

14 September 1962 Keith Adams 0

Leyland Chairman On Merger Benefits Sir Henry Spurrier, chairman and managing director of Leyland Motors, Mr Stanley Markland, deputy managing director, and Mr Donald Stokes, sales director, have joined the […]

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Archive : CAB2 opens at Longbridge

7 September 1962 Keith Adams 1

BMC – An Austin A40 is the first car to leave the newly completed CAB2 at Longbridge.

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