DAILY EXPRESS By Kingsley Squire While 400 car workers continued their extraordinary go-slow to ‘protect’ their jobs against strikes, British Leyland chiefs were last night adding up the probable cost […]
The Jaguar XJ6 is unveiled By GEOFFREY CHARLES Motoring Correspondent Four-and-a-half-years work and £6,500,000 expenditure bear fruit today in a new range of cars that will focus the spotlights on […]
DAILY MIRROR Donald Gresham Stokes, of British Leyland, is the most successful product of a vanishing, British breed. He is the 4d.-an-hour engineering apprentice turned £45,000-a-year top executive. The twist […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midlands Industrial Correspondent Sir Donald Stokes’s appointment of 42-year-old George Turnbull to one of the key British Leyland Motor Corporation posts, was welcomed yesterday both by his […]
Eight months after the merger, a change of chairman. By CLIFFORD WEBB Eight months after he took his British Motor Holdings group into the merger with Leyland. which produced the […]
DAILY MIRROR Nearly 3,000 Rover workers at two Birmingham factories were made idle yesterday following an unofficial strike by fifty-four gearbox assemblers at Rovers’ subsidiary factory at Greet , Birmingham. […]
THE GUARDIAN By GEOFFREY WHITELEY Strikes by fewer than two hundred workers at two component factories were pushing the car industry last night towards dislocation and widespread lay-offs. More than […]
THE GUARDIAN A spokesman for Jaguar cars at Coventry, said last night that 2,000 car assembly workers had been told not to report for duty today but to wait for […]
Raymond Baxter, well known BBC commentator, is to quit his job at British Leyland. For nearly two years he has been director of motoring publicity at the British Motor Corporation, […]
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