Month: September 1969

By GILES SMITH British Leyland, Britain’s biggest car group, will spend a total of £70m. in a major expansion of its Cowley, Oxford, car-making complex over the next few years, […]

DAILY MIRROR By Paul Connew Twenty six girl switchboard operators staged a lightning strike yesterday-and threw a giant car factory into chaos. The “hello girls” refused to let telephone calls […]

By GILES SMITH The share of the British car market won by British Leyland’s new and much publicized Maxi , production of which will be cut back for the second […]

A second cutback in Austin Maxi production at Oxford within a month will begin when the Morris Motors assembly plant re-opens on September 29 after the autumn week’s holiday. Planned […]

DAILY MIRROR Productivity Minister Barbara Castle stepped in last night over a pay strike at Standard Triumph, Liverpool, which has made 6,000 Midlands car workers idle. She met officials of […]

DAILY EXPRESS The 11-day-old unofficial strike of car body workers at Standard-Triumph’s Liverpool plant caused another 2,500 production workers to be laid off at the company’s Coventry factory yesterday. A […]

British Leyland’s strike problems at first eased yesterday but then became more serious. In the morning, 130 storemen at the car body factory of Pressed Steel Fisher at Washwood Heath, […]

By CLIFFORD WEBB. Midland Industrial Correspondent There were hopes last night that strike meetings taking place in Liverpool and Birmingham today will result in a return to work in two […]