Month: October 1963

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 […]