Month: October 1963

TIME magazine Britain: Rover All Over Friday, Oct. 25, 1963 As London’s motor show opened last week, the crowds clustered around a car that the Times of London called “the […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, Oct. 17 About 1,250 workers at Morris Motors assembly factory at Oxford will be idle tomorrow because of the strike by 1,250 workers at the Morris […]

The British Motor Corporation announced yesterday that they had raised production to record levels, and their current weekly output was more than 18,000 units-equivalent to well over 900,000 vehicles a […]

The strike of 800 men at Fisher and Ludlow Ltd., Birmingham, which laid off 8,000 workers in Birmingham and Cowley, ended last night. The strikers returned to work on the […]

Senior officials of four unions met in London last night and recommended that 800 strikers at Fisher and Ludlow’s car body works at Erdington. Birmingham should go back and talks […]

LORD LAMBURY TO HEAD B.M.C. Lord Lambury, formerly Sir Leonard Lord, is to succeed the late Lord Nuffield as president of the British Motor Corporation, the corporation announced last night. […]

The Last Of A Famous Line The famous motoring name Standard is to disappear after sixty years . Mr Stanley Markland, managing director of Standard Triumph, said yesterday that in […]

Radiator Strikers To Stay Out FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, Oct. 11 The 120 polishers on unofficial strike at the radiators branch of Morris Motors, Oxford, decided today not to return […]

Three thousand car workers were laid off yesterday because of an unofficial strike at the British Motor Corporation’s body-building factory of Fisher and Ludlow Ltd., Erdington, and car production at […]

£10m INVESTED For Rovers the launching of the new car represents the biggest revolution in plant and production methods in their history. The development programme has occupied five years, during […]

From Our Correspondent. OXFORD, OCT. 2 Lord Nuffield, who died in August at his home, Nuffield Place, near Henley, aged 85, left his home and about £500,000 to the Oxford […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, OCT. 1 Refusal to make a total addition to the company pay roll of 1&s. a week- 2s: each for nine girl typists-is threatening to cause […]

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 30 The 400 strikers at the Birmingham components firm of Weathershields. Ltd., whose two-week-old strike halted car production at the Rover Motor Company factory, and […]