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Archive : Export stopper
DAILY EXPRESS Nine thousand car workers at Standard Triumph in Coventry will strike today over their claim for more holiday pay. It means a loss of more than 700 cars, […]
Month: March 1969
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Archive : Unofficial strikes halt Triumph and Jaguar
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Labour troubles at British Leyland plants in Coventry brought Standard-Triumph production to a standstill yesterday and halted assembly of Jaguar’s new XJ6 saloon. At […]
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Archive : ‘Once a week’ strike threat to car giant
DAILY MIRROR The British Leyland car giant is facing a headlong clash with unions over holiday pay. The first showdown will come on Monday when Standard Triumph’s 8,000 production workers […]
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Archive : Jaguars hit by walk-out
DAILY MIRROR By PAUL CONNEW Fifteen hundred key car workers walked out on strike yesterday — In sympathy with workmates who claim they have become £20-a-week ” laughing stocks.” The […]
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Archive : How Leyland found Paradise and morale went soaring in the Austin Morris sales division
CLIFFORD WEBB The huge sales organization of British Leyland’s key Austin Morris division, the old B.M.C., is just emerging from its most traumatic shake-up since the original Austin-Nuffield merger in […]
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Archive : Rover news
THE GUARDIAN Another component dispute was near a settlement yesterday. Production returned to normal at the Rover works in Cardiff after a week’s strike by 650 engineering workers over a […]
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Archive : Rover news
THE GUARDIAN A week-old stoppage at the Cardiff plant of the Rover company over a pay dispute will end today. A decision to return was taken at a three-hour meeting […]