
Archive : Cowley men vote to end stoppage
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent After eight days of disruption during which up to 10,000 workers have been made idle and car production worth more than £9m has […]
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent After eight days of disruption during which up to 10,000 workers have been made idle and car production worth more than £9m has […]
By R. W. Shakespeare A mass meeting of workers at the huge British Leyland Austin-Morris car plant at Cowley, Oxford, will be voting today on whether or not to support […]
Why car unions are taking a strong line over ‘stop-watch overseers’ By Clifford Webb The week-old strike which has shut British Leyland’s Cowley car plant is potentially the most dangerous […]
Two thousand British Leyland car workers yesterday defied their shop stewards and returned to work at the Cowley plant. This has been at a standstill for three days following the […]
The situation deteriorated at British Leyland’s Cowley complex where 8,000 men are refusing to work while industrial engineers are in the assembly plant. A further 2400 men were laid off […]
A strike with serious long term implications for British Leyland has stopped all car production at Austin-Morris, Cowley. Some 5,000 men walked out of the assembly plant, causing another 1,350 […]
Sir George Farmer, deputy chairman of British Leyland and chairman of the Rover Triumph organization, will retire from the corporation board and from his executive responsibilities within the Rover Triumph […]
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Corresoondent British Leyland are recalling 5,000 1972 and 1973 XJ6 and XJ12 saloons, together with their Daimler derivatives, for a precautionary check on steering mechanism. […]
Minutes from the Jaguar and Rover Triumph Advisory Board The latest Bullet programme analysis showed it would not be possible to obtain adequate supplies of components off production tooling in […]
The end of the month long pay strike by British Road Services transport drivers in the Midlands yesterday meant that British Leyland was able to recall almost all of its […]
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