Month: October 1969

DAILY MIRROR THERE’S a battle brewing in the spare parts business — one of the most profitable sides of the motor trade. Britain’s biggest car manufacturers, British Leyland, are to […]

News of extensive short time working at the Austin-Morris plants at Cowley, Oxford, came yesterday in a joint statement by management and shop stewards. Production of the Austin Maxi is […]

At British Leyland’s Longbridge car plant the 120 engine assembly workers who have been on strike since October 1st over a piecework pay dispute have voted to stay out. Production […]

By R. W. SHAKESPEARE. The 1,150 engineering workers who are in the ninth week of their unofficial strike from the Standard Triumph International plant on Merseyside have been promised full […]

THE GUARDIAN The 195,000 people who work for British Leyland were warned yesterday by Sir Donald Stokes, chief executive of the group, that strikes would strangle the car industry and […]

Minis with a little more By GEOFFREY CHARLES, Motoring Correspondent For the second time in two years British Leyland’s Minis receive a face-lift today with three new models joining the […]

DAILY EXPRESS The second strike in two days yesterday again halted car production at the Morris Motors assembly factory at Cowley, Oxford. About 2,500 workers were sent home when 150 […]

By R. W. SHAKESPEARE There was still more trouble in Britain’s strike bound car industry yesterday. All vehicle assembly at the big Austin-Morris division of British Leyland at Cowley, Oxford, […]

DAILY MIRROR Uproar broke out yesterday among 6000 car workers who had been asked to vote for a strike. The vote, by Morris Motors assembly men at Oxford, had seemed […]

CAR magazine Motor Show Special 1969 The head of British Leyland talks exclusively to Doug Blain, Leonard Setright and Ronald Barker CAR – After nearly two years it seems reasonable […]

DAILY EXPRESS Standard-Triumph hit by a strike of 1,150 Liverpool car body workers over four weeks ago, still had 7,000 workers laid off yesterday, and the main assembly centre at […]