Month: January 1968

By CLIFFORD WEBB Rationalizing the new group’s European marketing set up should be child’s play compared with the mammoth task of unravelling the multiplicity of long established dealerships in Britain. […]

MAURICE CORINA and PHILIP JACOBSON After months of tough behind the scenes negotiations – brought to a head in the past four days by Leyland Motors determination to bid, if […]

At the offices of Cooper Brothers in London, BMH and Leyland men sign a document called ‘Heads of Agreement and Principles of Management Structure’. At 1.45pm the Stock Exchange is […]

THE GUARDIAN By John Torode A total of 6630 workers in the Midlands motor industry were laid off yesterday because of a strike of 130 external delivery drivers employed at […]

At around 1 am in Sir Donald Stokes St James, London flat, Joseph Edwards (BMH) agrees to the BMH-Leyland merger. At 10 am there is another BMH-Leyland meeting held in […]

A Sunday evening meeting at Sir Donald Stokes flat in St James, London is planned between senior Leyland and BMH executives. In the event only Sir George Harriman of BMH […]

Sir Frank Kearton lunches with Joseph Edwards (BMH) at his Courtaulds office in the City of London. Afterwards Sir Donald Stokes phones Kearton to discuss the meeting.

Sir Frank Kearton meets Sir George Harriman (BMH). Location unknown.

Sir Donald Stokes meets Prime Minister Harold Wilson at the Triumph plant on snow covered Merseyside. Stokes expresses his frustration at the slowness of merger negotiations and confesses he is […]

Today a meeting is held to discuss the merger of the Leyland Group and British Motor Holdings. Among those present are Sir George Harriman (BMH), Sir Donald Stokes (Leyland), Sir […]

THE GUARDIAN Jaguar Cars, of Coventry , which had to close on Monday because of absenteeism, reported normal working yesterday.

R.W. Grice and F.R.W. England are appointed Joint Managing Directors at Jaguar. Arthur Whittaker, deputy chairman, is to relinquish his executive duties because of ill health but continue as non-executive […]