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Archive : Triumph news
THE GUARDIAN Seventy-five unofficial strikers at the Triumph car plant at Liverpool , who stopped work last week and made a total of 11,500 other workers idle, agreed yesterday to […]
Month: April 1971
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Archive : Motoring Marina out for conquests
While Mr. Harry Webster, the designer, was drawing the outlines for the new Morris Marina, he was being prompted by a brash and brilliant salesman: a fugitive from Ford, Mr. […]
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Archive : Morris Marina is launched!
This day in history – from the daily news archives. Clifford Webb on British Leyland’s break with unconventional engineering and why they did it. Hard pressed British Leyland, the only […]
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Archive : British Leyland pay deal gives 22 per cent rises to 8000 at Longbridge
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial correspondent British Leyland car workers at Longbridge who are not involved in piecework, 8000 in all, are to get pay increases ranging between £5.28 and […]
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Archive : BLMC profit rise accelerates
Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland, told shareholders at the company’s annual meeting in London yesterday that the favourable profit trend he reported earlier had ‘accelerated “. While profit margins […]
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Archive : Peace hope in Longbridge strike by Leyland drivers
By Clifford Webb Day long talks between strikers and union officials and later with management produced a peace formula last night which could end the strike of drivers at British […]
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Archive : 5000 laid off after 217 walk out at Leyland
Lightning strikes by two small groups of workers at British Leyland’s Longbridge car plant yesterday stopped all assembly work, led to 5,000 men being laid off and threatened three years […]