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Month: February 1968

Alec Issigonis

Archive : Creative role for Issigonis in BMC board switch

28 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

By GEOFFREY CHARLES, Motoring Correspondent A high-level reshuffle of BMC directors’ areas of responsibility was announced yesterday as part of a streamlining process before completion of the BMH-Leyland merger. The […]

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Alec Issigonis

Archive : Mr Issigonis looks to the future

25 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

CARS AND DRIVERS by GEOFFREY CHARLES Whatever the outcome of the BMH-Leyland merger in model rationalization, intensified marketing or expansion-and any joint project will not appear for at least 3 […]

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Archive : BMH tightens management control at Longbridge

23 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent British Motor Holdings has begun a full-scale reorganization of its biggest production unit, the Longbridge group of factories employing 23,500 men and women on making […]

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Archive : BMC/Leyland merger

19 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

On this day: The agreement that resulted in the formation of the British Leyland Motor Corporation was ratified on this day. The first BLMC board meeting occurred today.

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Archive

Archive : BMC/Leyland merger

18 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

On this day: Sir George Harriman’s friend and former Leyland chairman Lord Black arranges another meeting. It took place on this Sunday morning at Jack Plane’s flat in Arlington House. […]

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Archive : BMC/Leyland merger

16 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

On this day: At 9.15am Sir Donald Stokes phones Sir Frank Kearton at his Courtaulds office to place on record that at no time did he push for Sir George […]

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Archive : BMC/Leyland merger

15 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

On this day: Sir Donald Stokes leave Sir Siegmund Warburg’s flat at 2.45am. Later this day at the Leyland headquarters at Berkley Square, London, Stokes he reports the events of […]

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Gerry Wright
Archive

Archive : Unions in joint appeal to strikers

14 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN While the strike at the Jaguar car factory in Coventry continued yesterday, an appeal by both management and unions went to strikers at Speke, near Liverpool, to return […]

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Sir George Harriman
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Archive : Sir George Harriman interview

13 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

Sir George Harriman, chairman of British Leyland Motor Corporation, talks to Geoffrey Charles, Motoring Correspondent, about the company’s plans Sir George Harriman pointed from the window of his Longbridge office. […]

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Archive : Jaguar strikers to resume work

12 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN Forty car assembly workers at Jaguar Cars, Coventry, will resume work today after a walkout on Friday. The dispute, which stopped production at the factory, was over the […]

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Archive : 4200 Laid Off In BMC Strike

9 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

DAILY MIRROR A pay strike by maintenance electricians led to 4200 cars workers being laid off at BMC’s Longbridge factory in Birmingham yesterday. This was the third time in sixteen […]

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Archive : British Leyland cuts prices – Sir George Harriman interview

2 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN Sir George Harriman and Sir Donald Stokes, joint chiefs of the new British Leyland Motor Corporation, are united in their belief that they can capture a significantly larger […]

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Archive : Mergers – Auto Alliance

2 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

TIME magazine Mergers: Auto Alliance The last major British-owned auto manufacturers, British Motor Holdings and Leyland Motor Corp., have decided that cooperation can be more profitable than competition. They have […]

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NEW YORK TIMES By DORON P. LEVIN British car maker Jaguar P.L.C. has almost no money, tiny production facilities, few dealers and dwindling sales – but it has something the world automotive giants are itching [...]

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