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Month: January 1968

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Archive : Rover news

30 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN Production of the Rover 2000 at Solihull resumed yesterday after being halted for nearly a week by two strikes at a firm supplying parts. Sixteen internal drivers and […]

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Archive : Stokes: ‘My most agonising choice’

21 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

THE OBSERVER By Peter Deeley Sir Donald Stokes, head of Leyland Motors,’very nearly’ made a takeover bid for British Motor Holdings instead of last week’s £320 million merger – and […]

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Archive : Sales boost likely in Europe

19 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

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. […]

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Archive : £410m British Leyland group created

18 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : BMC/Leyland talks

17 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Over 6000 car workers made idle

16 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : BMC/Leyland talks

15 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Leyland/BMC talks

14 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : BMC/Leyland talks

12 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

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.

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Archive : BMC/Leyland talks

11 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

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

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Archive : BMC/Leyland talks

9 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : BMC/Leyland merger

8 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Jaguar news

3 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

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

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Archive : Jaguar news

1 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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