British Leyland Motor Corporation is heading for a confrontation with a group of the country’s most powerful engineering unions over its plan to ” hive off” one of its important […]
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland’s recent management reorganization gathered pace yesterday. A number of new appointments will enable Mr George Turnbull, managing director of the Austin-Morris car […]
By Kingsley Squire Jaguar’s new 140-mile-an-hour saloon was marooned in its factory yesterday . the day it was due to be unveiled. Strike pickets kept 500 of the new models […]
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Attempts to end the strike at Jaguar in Coventry, now in its third week, failed at a 31 hour union-management meeting last night. A […]
The Jaguar XJ12 on sale from today. By Julian Mounter Motoring Correspondent The long-awaited V12 version of the XJ6 Jaguar is announced today. With a top speed of about 140mph […]
Shop stewards at British Leyland Motor Corporation’s Longbridge car plant claimed last night that 10,000 production workers at the plant had rejected “once and for all ” company proposals to […]
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Jaguar dealers are running out of spare parts as a result of unusually militant strike picketing of the company’s factories at Coventry. All production […]
DAILY EXPRESS CAR MEN ACCEPT £250 PAY SWITCH Paint shop workers at a car plant in Cowley, Oxford, yesterday agreed to give up piecework. They accepted £250 each in compensation […]
Jaguar car workers in Coventry were warned yesterday by their chairman and chief executive, Mr Ravmond England, that customers would not wait indefinitely while workers indulged in the “suicidal ” […]
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