Month: September 1963

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]