Month: August 1970

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]