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Month: April 1972

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Archive : Jaguar recruiting 900 to increase XJ6 production

29 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland is recruiting 900 workers at Jaguar, Coventry, to increase by one third production of the XJ6 saloon and E-type sports car models. […]

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Archive : 850 more jobs planned for Cowley car plant

28 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent Plans to raise the output of the Marina and Maxi range at the British Leyland Austin-Morris plant at Cowley, Oxford, will mean a […]

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Archive : BLMC settlement

28 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

British Leyland settlement: The 8.000 workers at British Leyland’s truck and bus division agreed yesterday to accept a pay offer worth about £5 a week plus an extra day of […]

BL Special Tuning did build a V8 Marina. This pic dates from 1974. ST boss Basil Wales is in the photo
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Archive : British Leyland may return to world motor sport

26 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Julian Mounter Motoring Correspondent British Leyland, anxious to rejuvenate its image, is flirting with the idea of returning to international motor sport. The corporation may also market a high […]

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Archive : BLMC spending £1m at Bathgate

26 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb British Leyland is spending £1m immediately to reorganize and modernize parts of its troubled truck and tractor plant at Bath- gate, West Lothian. Only two months ago […]

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Archive : Strikes

25 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN STRIKES Two of three disputes in the car industry, which have led to 21,000 workers going on strike or being laid off, were temporarily settled yesterday. Workers at […]

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Archive : Coventry lay-offs

22 April 1972 Keith Adams 3

More workers were laid off at Triumph, Coventry, yesterday bringing the total idle to over 5500. A further 1,400 are laid off at the company’s Liverpool plant. More than 8000 […]

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Archive : Cowley peace formula may avert full strike

21 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent Labour troubles continued to plague the motor industry yesterday, where some 16,000 workers were idle and assembly lines halted in several maior centres. […]

Archive

Archive : £8m sales lost by Cowley shutdown

19 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent The 10 day old shutdown of British Leyland’s car plant at Cowley, near Oxford. is now seriously affecting sales of the Marina and Maxi, […]

Archive

Archive : Thousands of Marinas need modification of windscreen wipers

18 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

HOME NEWS By Julian Mounter Motoring Correspondent Sixty thousand Morris Marina cars, two thirds of the total production, have been sold with what may be an embarrassing design fault. In […]

Archive

Archive : Girling strike further threat to car plants as lay-offs approach 10,000

18 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Disc brake supplies for a large part of the car industry will be halted within days by a strike which began yesterday at Girling’s […]

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Archive : More laid off as effects of car disputes spread

17 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

Nearly 14,000 British Leyland workers will be idle today with production at a standstill at Austin-Morris, Cowley and Triumph and Alvis, Coventry, as the effects of pay disputes continue to […]

Archive

Archive : Cowley men’s leader sees a glimmer of hope

15 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare The British Leyland management offered discussions yesterday to end the dispute which has halted production at the Austin-Morris plant at Cowley. The management said it would […]

Archive

Archive : Fresh strike halts second BLMC plant

14 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Car production at a second British Leyland factory was halted last night by fresh strike action. Some 1,500 Triumph assembly workers were laid off […]

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Archive : 10,000 jobs may be hit by Cowley sit-in

12 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent The effect of the two day old sit-in by 2,000 workers who have been suspended at British Leyland’s car bodv plant at Cowley near […]

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Archive : 2150 suspended as Cowley ban goes on

11 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland Motor Corporation yesterday enforced its sternest measures yet against employees involved in a pay dispute. Over 2150 men on both the day […]

Archive

Archive : 1300 suspended at Cowley car body plant

11 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

More than 1,300 workers who have been operating a go-slow for a month at British Leyland’s car body plant at Cowley were suspended yesterday. The men have been asked to […]

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Archive : Cowley men warned plant may be shut down

7 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland last night warned several thousand workers at its Cowley, Oxford car body plant that it was not possible to continue operations. The […]

Archive

Archive : BLMC’s peace plan approved

6 April 1972 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN BRITISH LEYLAND PEACE PLAN APPROVED BY STEWARDS A negotiating procedure which could bring industrial peace to British Leyland Motor Corporation was approved in principle by 300 shop stewards […]

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