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Archive : Top Dunlop man recruited by British Leyland
By Roy Farndon Mr John Simon, joint managing director of Dunlop Holdings, is joining British Leyland International on December 1 as managing director. He will be taking on a role […]
Month: November 1972
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Archive : Work starts on Jaguar plant extension in first step to boost output
By Clifford Webb British Leyland have started Work on a major expansion of Jaguar’s assembly plant at Coventry which will increase production from 850 cars a week to 1,400. Mr […]
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Archive : Exit villain of the piecework
Clifford Webb looks at the background to the new pay deal for British Leyland’s Longbridge workers. Unlike some motor industry leaders Mr George Turnbull, the 46-year-old deputy managing director of […]
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Archive : Jack Plane on Stokes
Mr Jack Plane, former deputy chairman of British Leyland, who resigned last week, said that he had left the company six months early partly as a protest at “one-man control” […]
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Archive : British Leyland gets Whitehall go-ahead for huge Rover plant expansion in the Midlands
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland, has won his long struggle with the Government to be allowed to expand his group’s car production in […]
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Archive : Lord Stokes spurns former deputy’s criticism of role
Lord Stokes, chairman and managing director of British Leyland, replied last night to reported criticisms of his role by Mr Jack Plane, a former deputy chairman. Mr Plane, whose resignation: […]
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Archive : Leyland wins Longbridge work pact breakthrough
By R. W. Shakespeare After nearly five weeks of hard bargaining, British Leyland appears to have achieved the breakthrough it has been seeking over a wages agreement for nearly 16,000 […]
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Archive : Boost for BLMC
THE GUARDIAN BOOST FOR BRITISH LEYLAND British Leyland announced at the Turin Motor show yesterday that sales of its cars in Italy during the first nine months of 1972 totalled […]