Month: September 1973

By R. W. Shakespeare More than 33,000 car workers were on strike or laid off last night as the industry’s shop floor battles over the Government’s wage restrictions spread. British […]

By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland plans to introduce the first of its advanced new family of aluminium car engines much earlier than expected. It is understood that […]

Mr Frank Tilston, managing director of the body and assembly division of Austin-Morris, has been given a senior appointment within British Leyland. He is to be director of manufacturing plans. […]

Elsewhere in the motor industry, production of saloon and sports cars is still stopped at British Leyland’s Jaguar plant in Coventry,with 2,000 workers laid off. This results from a strike […]

Another dispute in a components firm, Adwest, near Reading, goes on, and the effects of this are likely to grow over the coming week. Adwest makes power steering units and […]

BLMC WOES At Cowley, Oxford, the company had to send home 2,000 employees at its assembly factory, where production has been upset because of a strike at the Wilmot Breeden […]

OUR FAILURE BY CAR BOSS British Leyland bosses have been disappointed by their failure to make enough cars to satisfy their export potential, chairman Lord Stokes admitted yesterday. “We could […]

By William Daniels Jaguars new export chasing super cars will halt production today – only two days after they were launched . The shutdown decision came as the new range […]

STOKES AIMS TO BEAT THE WORLD By Leslie Nichol Lord Stokes has launched a bid to produce better-quality British Leyland cars , appointing a key man with special “Stop Production” […]

DAILY EXPRESS STRIKES HALT NEW JAGUAR AFTER WEEK Production of the export winning new Jaguar car series has been halted within a week of launch, by strikes at two supplier […]

DAILY EXPRESS LEYLAND HITS TOP GEAR By Kingsley Squire BRITISH Leyland is up, up and away. That was the message yesterday from a buoyant Mr John Barber, newly appointed managing […]

GEORGE TURNBULL RESIGNS Resignation of Mr Turnbull from BLMC prompts major reshuffle By Christopher Wilkins. Mr George Turnbull has resigned as managing director of British Leyland “by mutual consent”, prompting […]