
Archive : 1300 men are laid-off as strike hits Rover
DAILY MIRROR The Rover motor company is to lay off 1,300 workers at its main factory today. It will also halt production of its 2000 and 3500 models at the […]
DAILY MIRROR The Rover motor company is to lay off 1,300 workers at its main factory today. It will also halt production of its 2000 and 3500 models at the […]
DAILY MIRROR By PATRICK MENNEM, Motoring Correspondent British Leyland boss Lord Stokes attacked industrial unrest within his company yesterday. He said that most disputes were unofficial and need never have […]
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 […]
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