Month: June 1969

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 […]