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Archive : Mini Clubman takes shape
On this day: Somewhere in the bowels of BLMC a photograph is taken of hatchback Mini Clubman, part of the ADO20 programme. GLASGOW HERALD Meanwhile the strike by 400 press […]
Month: May 1968
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Archive : Car Giant On The Seesaw
DAILY MIRROR By Patrick Mennem For motor tycoon Sir Donald Stokes this is the moment of truth. In the next fortnight he must mastermind the streamlining of the newly-merged British […]
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Archive : BLMC goes flat out for Spanish market
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 […]
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Archive : British Leyland dispute grows over threatened redundancies
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 […]
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Archive : Leyland holds the whip hand in BLMC
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 […]
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Archive : Sir Donald charts the route
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 […]
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Archive : Security screen as Sir Donald meets unions
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 […]
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Archive : New, workers’ body promises BLMC a ‘show of teeth’
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. […]