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Archive : Leyland Holiday Task
Up to 400 British Leyland men have been working through their two weeks holiday to help clear large factory stocks of incomplete cars. The cars were unfinished because of strikes […]
Month: July 1970
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Archive : Pilkington glass strike
THE GUARDIAN The windscreen shortage has already brought the Jaguar plant in Coventry to a standstill, resulting in 1,700 lay-offs, and the Rover factory at Solihull has stopped producing 3.5 […]
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Archive : Four hands on the steering wheel
DAILY MIRROR British Leyland is the largest vehicle manufacturer in this country. In six months it has lost between £8,000,000 and £10,000,000 through strikes. Wage increases have cost £12,500,000. Throughout […]
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Archive : BLMC in takeover talks with Innocenti
THE GUARDIAN By Anthony Harris British Leyland is holding talks with Innocenti, the Milan engineering company which makes the BMC Mini and 1100/1300 for the Italian market. This could lead […]
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Archive : 2200 sent home at Leyland
By CLIFFORD WEBB All car production except that of the Maxi stopped at British Leyland’s Cowley plant yesterday and 2,200 workers were sent home following a strike by 200 transport […]
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Archive : £4 rise averts car closure
THE GUARDIAN A total shutdown of the car industry was averted yesterday when the 650 strikers at Lucas, Birmingham, voted to accept a £4 a week offer from the management, […]
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Archive : Lucas strike
THE GUARDIAN Jaguar has abandoned production at Coventry, laying off 1,500 workers, and 1,000 Rover workers have been sent home from Solihull for two days; 1,500 Pressed Steel Fisher employees […]
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Archive : A dispute at Joseph Lucas causes problems
DAILY EXPRESS Production of Jaguars at Coventry has been stopped and 1,500 workers made idle. Both Rover and British Leyland’s Austin-Morris division are storing unfinished cars. Standard Triumph intends to […]
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Archive : British Leyland’s labour relations scheme rejected
THE GUARDIAN Car union leaders yesterday rejected a plan put forward by the British Leyland Motor Corporation for the creation of a new industrial relations council intended to ease the […]