
Archive : Strife-hit Allegro comes to a full-stop
DAILY EXPRESS STRIFE HIT ALLEGRO COMES TO A FULL STOP By David Jack Production of British Leyland’s newly launched Allegro family saloon stopped yesterday. And it will remain at a […]
DAILY EXPRESS STRIFE HIT ALLEGRO COMES TO A FULL STOP By David Jack Production of British Leyland’s newly launched Allegro family saloon stopped yesterday. And it will remain at a […]
Former BMC/BMH/BLMC chairman Sir George Harriman dies today. He was 65 years old.
THE OBSERVER ALLEGRO KNOCKERS By Gordon Wilkins While the Austin Allegro was well received in Britain, some Continental writers were non-committal, some actively hostile. Switzerland’s Automobil Revue said tactfully: ‘The […]
Car production at the British Leyland Austin-Morris plant at Cowley, Oxford, was halted again yesterday because of the continuing dispute over work-study operations being carried out by the management. However, […]
DAILY EXPRESS SCANLON’S BID FAILS TO STOP ALLEGRO STRIKE By David Benson On the day the new Austin Allegro began to change hands above its list price, car workers tossed […]
Mr John Barber, recently promoted deputy chairman and deputy chief executive of British Leyland, yesterday warned the corporation’s 180,000 employees that much bigger profits would have to be made to […]
By Our Financial Staff British Leyland is preparing to reduce its holding in its South African subsidiary, Leyland Motor Corporation of South Africa. from about 80 per cent to 51 […]
THE OBSERVER BRITISH LEYLAND’S RACE TO CATCH UP MICHAEL BRAHAM looks at a group that turns out six cars where some make sixty. British Leyland celebrated its fifth birthday fine […]
By Peter Waymark British Leyland’s Austin Allegro, which is announced today, is probably the most important new model to appear since the formation of Leyland five years ago. With a […]
By Clifford Webb Two years ago, when British Leyland introduced the Morris Marina, there were a lot of disappointed motorists around. They expected something more exciting from the stable which […]
By Peter Waymark, Motoring Correspondent A new compact family saloon which could be crucial to the fortunes of British Leyland, Britain’s biggest car manufacturer, is announced today. The Austin Allegro […]
By Clifford Webb British Leyland’s projected new integrated car plant, costing between £100m and £150m, will almost certainly be built in one of three traditional steel-making centres, South Wales, Shotton, […]
Lord Stokes looks at British Leyland in an interview with Andrew Goodrick-Clarke Five controversial years after Leyland and the troubled British Motor Holdings were put together to form British Leyland […]
DAILY EXPRESS MY STAKE IN YOUR TOMORROW By Lord Stokes As a massive act of faith In Britain, Lord Stokes yesterday committed himself to the biggest Industrial expansion programme in […]
THE GUARDIAN Firmly in the big league A digest of a speech made by Lord Stokes at a lunch at the Savoy Hotel, London, to mark the fifth anniversary of […]
By Peter Waymark Motoring Correspondent The next five years will see a big rationalization of British Leyland’s car ranges with the introduction of several new and radically revised models and […]
By Clifford Webb A £400m investment over the next five years in new and expanded manufacturing facilities was foreshadowed yesterday by Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland. It could well […]
By Roy Mackie In his long career from apprentice to chairman at British Leyland, Lord Stokes has certainly learned one art to perfection , how to beat strikes. His success […]
By Our Northern Industrial Correspondent No vehicles are being completed at British Leyland’s bus and truck factories at Leyland, Lancashire, normally one of the group’s top export earners, because of […]
It was estimated that 1,600,000 workers yesterday rallied to the TUC call for a one-day strike in protest at -the Government’s counter-inflation pay and prices measure… British Leyland, already affected […]
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