Archive : Strikes
DAILY EXPRESS A Strike hit a component factory in Reading, Berkshire, bringing trouble to Rovers at Solihull, Warwickshire and Jaguar’s at Coventry. Rover 2000 production will be halted today and […]
DAILY EXPRESS A Strike hit a component factory in Reading, Berkshire, bringing trouble to Rovers at Solihull, Warwickshire and Jaguar’s at Coventry. Rover 2000 production will be halted today and […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent All car production was brought to a standstill at Jaguar, Coventry, and Jensen, West Bromwich, last night by an unofficial strike at Adwest Engineering, […]
THE GUARDIAN At the Jaguar plant in Coventry 500 workers are idle because of a dispute. Jaguar’s troubles resulted from a walk-out by 400 workers at the company’s factory in […]
An inter-union dispute at a Birmingham steel works is threatening production at British Leyland factories in the Midlands, in spite of the fact that no materials go direct to the […]
Auckland: Plans for a motor assembly plant in New Zealand capable of producing 20,000 vehicles a year were announced by Lord Stokes, chairman of the British Leyland Motor Corporation.
By BUSINESS NEWS STAFF British Leyland Motor Corporation, Britain’s major motor manufacturer, yesterday announced pre-tax profits of £40.4m. for its latest financial year. This is 12 per cent more than […]
DAILY EXPRESS The four-day-old strike by 50 men which stopped production of the Austin Maxi and Morris Oxford at Cowley, Oxford, ended yesterday. The men will get ex-gratia payments up […]
By CLIFFORD WEBB British Leyland is considering the introduction of short time working at the Austin-Morris assembly plant at Longbridge, Birmingham. This is the biggest single manufacturing unit in the […]
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