
Archive : Peace hopes rise at Leyland
Hopes of settlement of the labour troubles at five British Leyland factories in Lancashire rose yesterday when mass meetings of the 8500 workers at Leyland and Chorley voted to postpone […]
Hopes of settlement of the labour troubles at five British Leyland factories in Lancashire rose yesterday when mass meetings of the 8500 workers at Leyland and Chorley voted to postpone […]
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE and ALEX HENDRY Shop stewards of the British Leyland factories in Lancashire, where there are fears of a renewed strike by 8,500 workers, were last night […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Firm action by shop stewards and full-time union officials yesterday ended the unofficial strike by 250 workers in a Birmingham components factory, which threatened […]
By Business News Staff Nearly 1,000 engine assemblers at British Leyland, Longbridge. Birmingham, were laid off yesterday because of an unofficial strike at Burmans, King’s Norton, Birmingham, a key supplier […]
THE GUARDIAN More than eight thousand production workers employed at the five Lancashire factories of British Leyland today return to work after their strike. It will be the first day’s […]
DAILY EXPRESS Rover: Striking storekeepers and internal transport men at Cardiff decided yesterday to continue their action which has already halted production of the Rover 2000 and made idle 3,600 […]
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE, Northern Industrial Correspondent The 8500 workers from five British Leyland Vehicle factories in Lancashire will be returning to work on Monday morning after their five week […]
DAILY MIRROR At the Rover factory, at Solihull, Warwickshire, work on the dollar earning Rover 2000 stopped yesterday—because of an unofficial strike by fifty-seven men at the company’s Cardiff works. […]
Rover 2000 production was at a standstill at Solihull, but at Cowley, where inspectors walked out of the Morris Motors plant on Thursday over a pay dispute, a return to […]
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE The five-week-old strike by 8500 workers which has closed five British Leyland factories in Lancashire is almost certain to be called off tomorrow with a full […]
By GEOFFREY CHARLES, Motoring Correspondent The two-millionth Mini saloon to be produced since the little front wheel-drive car was launched in August 1959, rolls off British Leyland’s Longbridge assembly line […]
DAILY MIRROR By Sidney Wiliams and James Beecroft The writing was already scrawled in black paint on the walls round Leyland—”Parity with Midlands now !” Lord Stokes, boss of the […]
By ALEX HENDRY and R. W. SHAKESPEARE British Leyland was warned last night that there was no hope of peace at its five strike bound Lancashire factories if it insisted […]
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE, Northern Industrial Corresdondent Victor Feather, T.U .C. acting general secretary first spoke to leaders of four unions in a demarcation dispute at the Pressed Steel Fisher […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB In spite of intense activity behind the scenes by management, unions and the Engineering Employers’ Federation, the renewed demarcation dispute at Pressed Steel Fisher, Cowley, is to […]
THE TIMES BUSINESS NEWS FRIDAY PROGRESS IN SPITE OF STRIFE By R. W. SHAKESPEARE The three-week-old strike by 8,599 workers which has brought five British Leyland plants in Lancashire to […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB and GILES SMITH Lord Stokes, chairman and managing director of British Leyland, yesterday spelt out the serious consequences of continued industrial disputes to the group’s 168,000 employees […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent With truck and bus losses approaching £2m. and millions of pounds of export orders in danger, British Leyland last night warned the 8,500 strikers […]
DAILY EXPRESS Pipefitters at Pressed Steel Fisher’s Oxford factory-their who-does-what dispute has led to nearly 10,000 men being idle —agreed last night to resume work today. Anticipating this decision their […]
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE, Northern Industrial Correspondent As the motor industry today enters another week of mounting labour troubles it faces the possibility of the worst production chaos for several […]
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