Archive : 10,000 laid-off after car plant strike
THE GUARDIAN Estimates last night put the total number of men laid off in the motor industry as a result of the strike at Pressed Steel Fisher’s car-body plant at […]
THE GUARDIAN Estimates last night put the total number of men laid off in the motor industry as a result of the strike at Pressed Steel Fisher’s car-body plant at […]
THE GUARDIAN A series of strikes hit the motor industry yesterday, causing about 8,500 men to be laid off in five factories. The most serious was a dispute in which […]
By GEOFFREY CHARLES, Motoring Correspondent Rapid re-thinking inside the BMH-Leyland group has led to a decision to postpone their next family saloon, the 1.5-litre BMC, until next year. Up to […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midlands Industrial Correspondent The first major casualty in the merging of BMH and Leyland was announced last night. Joe Edwards. 60-year-old managing director of BMC and Sir […]
On this day: Alec Issigonis replies to Sir Donald Stokes letter of April 10th 1968. Dear Sir Donald, I enclose a short resume of work that I am currently engaged […]
On this day: Sir Donald Stokes writes to Alec Issigonis: Dear Alec, I am hoping to have a word with you on Friday at BMC and I am trying to […]
JAGUAR/BLMC Sir William Lyons of Jaguar writes to Sir Donald Stokes. ‘Some people in our organisation have received a document entitled “Policy Instruction”. As this is contrary to the agreement […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Shop floor management at British Leyland plants yesterday reassured workers that reports of 30,000 redundancies in the new group during the next two years […]
On this day: At a meeting today at BLMC’s Berkeley Square HQ, London, between Alec Layborn, Lewis Whyte and Sir Donald Stokes, it was decided that unless Joseph Edwards agreed […]
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