Month: May 1969

Len Brindle, chairman of the Leyland joint works committee, addressing the meeting of workers at Leyland Motors yesterday. He told them that the A.E.F. district committee had recommended to the […]

By Business News Staff More serious labour troubles hit British Leyland yesterday when a walk out by 3,000 workers stopped all production at the main Rover assembly plant at Solihull. […]

By R. W. SHAKESPEARE, Northern Industrial Correspondent An unofficial strike by about 8,500 production workers kept British Leyland’s five Lancashire factories idle for a second consecutive day yesterday. A management […]

DAILY EXPRESS Picket lines were abandoned at five factories yesterday – when 8,500 car workers gave an unofficial strike full support. Two hundred pickets were on the gates when the […]

A negotiated pay rise of £2 a week for 5,000 clerks employed in British Leyland factories in the Midlands and Oxford ran into trouble yesterday-within 24 hours of its acceptance […]

By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Internal truck drivers at Pressed Steel Fisher’s Coventry car body plant yesterday called off their 10 day old strike over a claim for additional […]

By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midlands Industrial Correspondent Ten internal truck drivers meet this afternoon to vote on whether or not to call off the week old strike which has shut Pressed […]

By CLIFFORD WEBB British Leyland is to introduce night shift working on its Maxi assembly lines to cope with the flood of orders received since it was introduced three weeks […]

DAILY MIRROR By PAUL CONNEW A wildcat strike by by ten men in a row over who empties dustbins was threatening the jobs of thousands of car production workers last […]

DAILY EXPRESS By David Jack British Leyland is delaying the Continental launching of its new “Maxi” model for six months – to avoid complaints of late deliveries and inadequate after […]

By GILES SMITH British Leyland, Britain’s biggest car maker, yesterday announced plans costing £45m. for major expansion of the Cowley, Oxford, car-making facilities. The expansion centres on the adjoining plants […]

GLASGOW HERALD Expansion of Albion Motors Ltd will soon be concentrated in additional space at the former Harland & Wolff premises , Scotstoun, Glasgow , it was announced yesterday in […]

DAILY MIRROR Thousands of workers obeyed the call to strike against the Government’s plans for union reform. Most factory workers ignored the strike call—although the stoppage closed two British Leyland […]

By MICHAEL THOMAS Docks, national newspapers, and sections of the car industry, were worst affected by widespread May Day strikes yesterday in protest at the Government’s proposed strike control legislation. […]

HIGH ROAD BLMC Magazine Charles Griffin , Director of Engineering at the Austin Morris Division , discusses the Austin Maxi with the Editor . Charles Griffin – This car has […]

HIGH ROAD Charles Griffin, Director of Engineering at the Austin Morris Division, discusses the Austin Maxi with the Editor. Charles Griffin – This car has been a general talking point […]