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Month: June 1972

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Archive : Double setback for BLMC in drive to end piecework rates

27 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland’s simmering piecework problem boiled over yesterday. A strike by 2,000 workers stopped Jaguar car production at Coventry and shop stewards at Austin-Morris, […]

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Archive : Morris workers end strike

24 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

DAILY EXPRESS MORRIS WORKERS END STRIKE About 2,500 workers on strike at British Leyland”s Morris engines plant, Coventry, since Wednesday, returned to work yesterday. But other Coventry factories were threatened […]

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Archive : Coventry strike threatened

22 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

British Leyland car and light commercial vehicle production is threatened by a strike of 2,500 workers at the Austin-Morris engine plant, Coventry. The men walked out yesterday when the company […]

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Archive : Austin-Morris chief will have wider BLMC duties

21 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Mr George Turnbull, 45, one of the two deputy managing directors of British Leyland and head of its key Austin-Morris division, has also been appointed chairman of […]

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Archive : BLMC repay £20m of loan

17 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Philip Dver British Leyland Motor Corporation is to make an immediate repayment to the Government of £20m of the outstanding £35m loans made available to the group by the […]

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Archive : Leyland may drop the ‘British’

16 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

LEYLAND MAY DROP THE ‘BRITISH’ The name “British” may be dropped from British Leyland plants abroad because of its ” bad image.” The company’s deputy managing director Mr George Turnbull, […]

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Archive : BLMC has long wait to reap full potential

16 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

From A Goodrick-Clarke Seneffe, Belgium, June 15 It will be 1975-76 at the earliest before British Leyland’s real profit potential can be “anywhere near achieved” Mr John Barber, a group […]

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Archive : Bad start, but BLMC optimistic

8 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

By A Goodrick-Clarke British Leyland aims more or less to match the 1970-71 profit of £32rm in the current year. But there has been a bad start. First half profits, […]

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Archive : Triumph news

6 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN TRIUMPH NEWS Efforts will be made at a meeting today to persuade clerical workers at two Triumph car factories in Liverpool to end their unofficial strike which has […]

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Archive : Triumph news

5 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN TRIUMPH NEWS Pickets have been withdrawn from the two Triumph factories at Speke Hall and Woodend, Speke, Liverpool, where 270 clerks have been on unofficial stoppage since last […]

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Archive : Men on strike for equal pay

4 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN by DAVID WILSON A strike by male supervisors to get wages parity with women they supervise is threatening thousands of Coventry car jobs this week. The pickets , […]

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Archive : Triumph lay-offs

3 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN TRIUMPH NEWS In Liverpool the number of workers laid-off at the two Triumph car factories because of a strike by clerical workers rose to 2,300 yesterday. Production of […]

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Archive : Union official is shouted down

2 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN A union leader was shouted down at Liverpool yesterday when he tried to persuade members to call off an unofficial strike at a Triumph car factory. The strikers […]

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Archive : Wage offer likely to avert Jaguar closure

1 June 1972 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Eleventh hour talks seemed last night to have averted a threatened shutdown of Jaguar’s Coventry plants which was due to begin today. A company […]

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