Month: May 1973

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 […]