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ROVER TRIUMPH Rover Triumph SD2 – Minutes from the Jaguar and Rover Triumph Advisory Board “The more dramatic Rover Triumph style has been selected although final choice between this and […]
ROVER TRIUMPH Rover Triumph SD2 – Minutes from the Jaguar and Rover Triumph Advisory Board “The more dramatic Rover Triumph style has been selected although final choice between this and […]
By R. W. Shakespeare Bntish Leyland senior executives, including Mr Pat Lowry, the corporation’s industrial relations director, went back to Sir Frank Figgures, the Pay Board chairman, yesterday in a […]
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 […]
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