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Month: September 1963

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Archive : Strike stops Rover works

28 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

STRIKE STOPS ROVER WORKS A further 500 workers were laid off yesterday at the Rover Company’s main assembly plant in Solihull, Warwickshire, where production has been halted by a strike […]

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Archive : Night shift strike at Morris Motors

25 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

NIGHT SHIFT STRIKE AT MORRIS MOTORS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, SEPT. 24 Night shift workers in the dispatch departments at Morris Motors, Oxford, staged a token stoppage tonight in support […]

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Archive : Car-Delivery Men To Continue Strike

24 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, SEPT. 23 Oxford car delivery drivers voted overwhelmingly tonight to continue their strike now a week old, for a 42-hour, five-day week with overtime Pay. The […]

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Archive : Rover’s new chairman

19 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

Mr L.T.G. Farmer has been appointed executive chairman of the Rover Company of Solihull, Warwickshire, succeeding Mr M. Wilks, who died on September 8. Formerly executive vice-chairman of the company, […]

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Archive : Oxford Car Delivery Men Strike

17 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, SEPT. 16 Car delivery drivers in Oxford went on strike today in support of a claim for a 42-hour five-day week with overtime pay.  They are […]

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Obituary : Maurice Wilks 1904-1963

10 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

Mr Maurice Wilks, Chairman of the Rover Company Limited, died at his home in Anglesey on Sunday night. He was 59. Born in 1904 Maurice Carey Wilks was educated at […]

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Archive : Car Delivery Men To Go Back

7 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, SEPT 6 One strike ended and another was averted here today. At a lengthy meeting 450 car delivery drivers voted to return to work on Monday.  […]

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Archive : Car Men In ‘Little’ Union Get The Sack

7 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

Thirty seven toolmakers were yesterday sacked by the Pressed Steel Company following an inter-union row. They were given a weeks pay in lieu of notice by the firms Oxford car […]

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Archive : Drivers’ Strike Hits Car Output

6 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, SEPT. 5 Half the Midlands car industry is threatened by the four-day-old strike of 450 Coventry car delivery drivers.  Jaguars announced tonight there would be no […]

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Archive : Austin 1100 launched today

6 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

The Austin version of the BMC 1100 ADO16 is announced today. Production of the B.M.C. 1100 is now running at 5,500 a week, and coupled with a weekly output of […]

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Archive : Standard-Triumph news

5 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

STANDARD TRIUMPH NEWS New Leyland marketing division Leyland Motor announces today the formation of the Leyland Light Commercial Vehicle Division , to be established at the Standard-Triumph factories in Coventry. […]

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Archive : Lay-Off With Pay Saves Output

5 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

The British Motor Corporation last night averted a hold-up in production by laying off on pay 30 toolmakers whose employment at the tractor and transmissions plant in Birmingham was in […]

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Archive : Inter-Union Dispute Causes Strike

3 September 1963 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR MIDLAND CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM. SEPT. 2 Car production by the British Motor Corporation is seriously threatened by the unofficial strike of 116 toolroom workers at the tractor and transmissions […]

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