Month: July 1970

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]