Month: May 1968

THE GUARDIAN By John Coyne Undoubtedly the fastest growing car market in Europe is in Spain, and in spite of a ban on car imports into Spain the newly merged […]

By Business News Staff Threats of unrest in the motor industry were growing yesterday with disputes at the British Leyland Group, Rootes’ plant at Linwood, and a subsidiary of Ford […]

THE GUARDIAN By Adam Raphael Britain’s biggest motor manufacturer, the British Leyland Motor Corporation, employing nearly 200,000 men with annual sales worth more than £800 millions, comes into existence officially […]

Today the new British Leyland Motor Corporation officially takes its place among the world’s car giants. GEOFFREY CHARLES, Motoring Correspondeht, and ROBERT JONES talked to Sir Donald Stokes, BLMC’s chief […]

By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent The long-awaited confrontation between Sir Donald Stokes. chief executive of British Leyland, and the powerful joint shop stewards committee which holds such sway in […]

Even before the British Leyland Motor Corporation has officially come into being representatives of the 180,000 workers have formed their joint organization, which has promised an early show of teeth. […]