By CLIFFORD WEBB Midland Industrial Correspondent A fresh outbreak of strikes hit the already troubled car industry yesterday. By last night over 7,000 workers were idle at British Leyland, Rootes, […]
The job is being filled by Lester Suffield, the London sales manager of British Leyland. Lester Suffield, a 58-year-old car industry career man, knows an export market when he sees […]
THE GUARDIAN British Leyland car plants yesterday had their first strike free day this week. Work returned to normal at Longbridge, Birmingham, with the return of 30 storemen who walked […]
THE GUARDIAN Production of British Leyland’s mini-car range will return to normal today at the Longbridge plant, Birmingham, after a strike which made 1,100 workers idle. Labour troubles, however, continue […]
THE GUARDIAN The Coventry car factory of Standard-Triumph is expected today to resume normal production, with storage yards now free of stockpiled cars, following the ending of a two week […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midlands Industrial Correspondent British Leyland’s labour troubles see-sawed yesterday. first with the ending of the Midland delivery drivers’ strike which has paralysed Standard-Triumph, and later with the […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Nearly 9,000 British Leyland workers were idle last night as a result of strikes at the group’s plants at Longbridge, Cowley, Coventry, and Abingdon, […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland’s labour troubles worsened last night when 1,200 assembly workers at Standard Triumph, Coventry, were laid off and production of all models except […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Production at three of British Leyland’s biggest car plants was seriously affected by strikes last night. All Mini output was at a standstill with […]
DAILY MIRROR By Paul Connew The two screws car strike was called off yesterday. Two hundred Vehicle Builders’ Union members at the Standard-Triumph plant, Coventry, voted to go back to […]
DAILY EXPRESS The jobs of 10,000 car workers rest on a crucial vote today by strikers in the “who-turns-the-screws” dispute. The 200 strikers will be asked to consider a peace […]
DAILY EXPRESS SCREWY… About 500 men are idle, and jobs of thousands more are in jeopardy at, the Standard-Triumph plant at Coventry where unions are squabbling over the tightening of […]
BY OUR INDUSTRIAL STAFF Leaders of three unions are to visit British Leyland’s Standard-Triumph plant at Coventry in an effort to settle the dispute over who should tighten screws on […]
DAILY EXPRESS Standard Triumph of Coventry stockpiled cars on the factory Rugby pitch yesterday as an unofficial strike by 50 delivery drivers threatened to make 9,000 production workers idle today.
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