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Month: May 1969

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Archive : 89 men strike and five car plants stop

31 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

DAILY EXPRESS By David Jack A “who does what” dispute by 89 pipe fitters crippled production at five car plants yesterday making 6,000 men idle, and threatening the jobs of […]

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Archive : Unions in threat to British Leyland

28 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

MIDLANDS INDUSTRY By CLIFFORD WEBB In the midst of the toughest rationalization progrramme the car industry has seen, Sir Donald Stokes, vice-chairman and managing director of the newly merged British […]

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Archive : Leyland strikers to stay out

23 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Rover adds to Leyland labour troubles

22 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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. […]

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Archive : Strike at Leyland is deadlocked says management

21 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Massive strike hits motor works

20 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Leyland clerks veto union agreed pay rate

17 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Drivers at Pressed Steel end strike

16 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Coventry strike vote critical to Leyland

15 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Night shifts to cope with Maxi orders

14 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Dustbin strike threat to thousands of car workers

13 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Europe to wait six months for the Maxi

9 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Leyland will spend £45m to double Cowley car output

9 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Leyland Plans 900 More Jobs

3 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : May Day Protest Strikes

2 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Strikes disrupt car factories, docks and newspapers

2 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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. […]

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Archive : Charles Griffin interview

1 May 1969 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Interview – Charles Griffin

1 May 1969 Keith Adams 2

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 […]

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