Month: September 1972

By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent British Leyland has made its biggest breakthrough yet in its plans to eliminate piecework from its largest car plants in favour of fixed […]

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent A dispute between shop stewards at two British Leyland plants in Birmingham has forced the management to suspend production of JY and J4 vans […]

By Roy Farndon British Leyland said yesterday there would now be no compulsory redundancies at Thornycroft, its heavy transmission subsidiary. The Basingstoke works has been stopped for five weeks by […]

British Leyland yesterday denied persistent reports that they are to replace the long-running 1100/1300 Austin range with a new car to be launched in the spring. Mr Filmer Paradise. director […]

By Clifford Webb Jaguar management last night refuted complaints by employees that they had been laid off so frequently-mainly through component shortages, that they had only worked 11 full weeks […]

BY Clifford Webb British Leyland yesterday announced a new range of trucks to head its drive into the European Economic Community. They are being manufactured at the group’s Bathgate, West […]

The strikers talk: ‘We’ve: given in now because the company’s starved us back.. . so many bills behind the mantelpiece clock one more would push it off’ The 10-week strike […]

Jaguar men go back for a deal they rejected By Paul Connew Strikers at the Jaguar car works went back to work yesterday claiming that they had been “starved out.” […]

The longest strike in the history of Jaguar cars ended yesterday after 10 weeks and four days. It cost the company some £21m worth of cars and ruined the launch […]

By Malcolm Brown The 24 separate United Kingdom-based British Leyland companies in the car and commercial vehicle business are to, be incorporated into a single new company, British Leyland UK, […]

DAILY EXPRESS HARD LABOUR ! By Roy Mackie British Leyland Motor Corporation has been clobbered again , and as usual the car giant’s labour problems are to blame. As the […]

British Leyland is dropping Albion, one of the best known names in the commercial vehicle industry as part of the continuing rationalization of its truck and bus division. All Albion […]