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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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