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Month: August 1970

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Archive : ‘Rogue’ car dumped

29 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

Mrs. Evelyn McGuigan yesterday dumped her car outside the gates of a British Leyland factory at Cowley, Oxford because she said she was fed up with the car’s faults. She […]

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Archive : Hopes rise in car chaos

28 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN British Leyland expect 1100 and 1300 production to be back to normal today at Cowley and Longbridge, and at the Land- Rover factory in Solihull, production is expected […]

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Archive : Motor strike losses running at £3m a day: 24,000 now idle

26 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Motor industry losses resulting from the deadlocked strikes at G.K.N.-Sankey and Dunlop, Coventrv, are now running at the rate of £3m. a day, it […]

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Archive : Leyland to quit motor sports

25 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

By JULIAN MOUNTER British Leyland is to withdraw from motor sport, including rallying, to concentrate its efforts on its new model programme, it was announced yesterday. The decision was taken […]

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Archive : Leyland’s Men Face Shutdown At Bathgate

24 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

GLASGOW HERALD Further lay-offs are expected to be announced today at the Bathgate plant of British Leyland and a complete shutdown of the factory cannot be ruled out. Already 2400 […]

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Archive : 12,000 idle as car strikes continue

22 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

From CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent A mass meeting of strikers at G.K.N.-Sankey yesterday shouted down union officials urging a return to work and voted to continue their fortnight old […]

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Archive : Wildcat strikes at Rover

21 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

DAILY MIRROR Nine strikers shut down the dollar earning Rover car firm indefinitely last night. The wildcat strikers defied union officials who had advised them to return to work. Now […]

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Archive : BLMC faces threat of more lay-off strikes

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By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industral Correspondent British Leyland car plants throughout the country are threatened by strikes in support of a guaranteed lay-off pay for workers made idle by stoppages […]

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Archive : New structure at BLMC: divisions cut back to five

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By CLIFFORD WEBB British Leyland yesterday announced a major re-organisation to speed up integration of the motor empire created over two years ago by the merging of Leyland and British […]

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Archive : More Workers Laid Off At Bathgate

18 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

EVENING TIMES More men were put on short time today at the British Leyland factory, Bathgate, and a further 100 tractor machining employees were laid off because of a strike […]

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Archive : 26,000 Cars Still Wait For Lucas Components

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By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midlands lndustrial Correspondent More than 26,000 incomplete cars were stockpiled throughout Britain last night, waiting for electrical components missing slnce the Lucas strike, which ended over a […]

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Archive : Leyland stewards criticize Stokes

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Senior shop stewards claiming to represent 190,000 British Leyland employees yesterday criticized Lord Stokes, the group chairman. for implying that his workers were responsible for the group’s poor performance. Two […]

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Archive : Leyland workers accept pay offer

12 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland yesterday completed the first stage in its plan to convert Austin-Morris car plants from piecework to a more simplified pay structure. After […]

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Archive : Lord Stokes Talks To Robert Head

10 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

DAILY MIRROR At least a million families in Britain depend on the giant British Leyland Motor Corporation. Nearly 200,000 collect pay packets from its factories. The rest make accessories or […]

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Archive : Car strikes settled

8 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

By DENNIS DWYER British Leyland’s labour troubles began to ease yesterday and production generally is expected to be back to normal on Monday. Workers involved in several disputes returned and […]

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Archive : Leyland’s strike problems continue

7 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

Disruption at British Leyland’s Longbridge plant continues. The company settled one strike yesterday but faced worsening problems as two other disputes added to Leyland’s strike problems, which include a stoppage […]

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Archive : Two new disputes add to motor troubles

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By R. W. SHAKESPEARE Labour troubles in the car industry showed no signs of easing yesterday. For the second successive day there was no production of 1800 models at British […]

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Stokes gives new warning as more strikes hit BLMC

5 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

By GILES SMITH Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland Motor Corporation, yesterday launched his second major attack this year on industrial relations in the motor industry. As he spoke two […]

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Archive : Austin-Morris car output threatened by disputes

5 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. SHAKESPEARE All car production at British Leyland’s giant Austin/Morris division plant at Longbridge is threatened by two serious unofficial strikes which began yesterday. The strikes started only […]

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Archive : Productivity plea to Austin Morris men as car imports soar

3 August 1970 Keith Adams 0

By PETER HILL Sixty thousand workers in British Leyland’s Austin Morris division are warned today that greater productivity and increased efficiency are needed to meet the challenge of rising foreign […]

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