Month: May 1972

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent The 2300 British Leyland employees at Cowley, near Oxford, yesterday rejected their shop stewards’ advice and voted overwhelmingly to accept a new offer of […]

Three thousand British Leyland workers were idle at two of the group’s plants in Birmingham last night with production severely interrupted as fresh strikes added to the toll of recent […]

Employees of Triumph Motors in Coventry have overwhelmingly rejected the company’s pay and conditions package deal recently offered. With nearly all the 7,300 votes cast, a union spokesman estimated yesterday […]

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Triumph Motors’ proposals to abolish piecework in a new pay deal will be put to the test this ,week at a series of mass […]

By Clifford Webb More than 200 shop stewards at Triumph’s Canley plant in Coventry rejected a proposed new pay and conditions structure yesterday, only hours after the management had announced […]

By Roy Farndon Sir George Farmer and Mr Jack Plane are the two new deputy chairmen of British Leyland Motor Corporation. These appointments follow the retirement earlier this year of […]

DAILY EXPRESS LORD STOKES: HOW WE LIVE THROUGH THE STORM By David Benson The man who took on the ” impossible task” of driving Britain’s No.1 car makers in among […]

The British Leyland Motor Corporation is shortly to complete a £3m. deal to buy outright Innocenti Autoveicoli of Milan, the company which assembles and sells Austin-Morris cars in Italy. Announcement […]

THE OBSERVER STOKES TO TAKEOVER INNOCENTI By Roger Eglin British Leyland is to buy the Italian family-owned car company, Innocenti Autoveicoli , of Milan, for some £3 million. Innocenti already […]