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Month: September 1972

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Archive : British Leyland moving van plant to Scotland

29 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

Van production is to be transferred by British Leyland from Adderly Park, Birmingham, to its factory at Bathgate, West Lothian. About 85 new jobs will be created when assembly starts […]

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Archive : Flat rate wage deal at second Leyland plant

23 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

British Leyland has concluded a second flat rate pay settlement with workers in its Midland plants within 24 hours. It marks another significant step in the corporation’s programme of phasing […]

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Archive : BLMC breakthrough on piecework

22 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Shop stewards’ dispute halts BLMC van output

21 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : BLMC jobs pledge at Thornycroft

18 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Leyland denies replacement for Austin models

14 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Jaguar refute layoffs complaint

8 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Cheaper BLMC truck range for Europe

8 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Jaguar strike ends

6 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Starved Out

6 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

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.” […]

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Archive : Jaguar men vote to end stoppage on terms rejected two weeks ago

6 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : British Leyland companies in UK rationalization

4 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

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, […]

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Archive : Hard Labour!

2 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Albion name goes in BLMC rationalization

1 September 1972 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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