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Month: January 1974

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Archive : British Leyland ends Cowley Saturday shifts

30 January 1974 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare After the Government’s announcement of changes in the three-day working week arrangements, British Leyland has ended troublesome and costly Saturday shift working for the 19,000 workers […]

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Archive : BLMC to spread £3m in Turkey

22 January 1974 Keith Adams 0

British Leyland’s associate company in Turkey, BMC Sanayi, is spending £3m to increase output of lorries, vans and tractors. It already dominates the Turkish commercial vehicle market, accounting for more […]

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Archive : Disputes halve output at BLMC Cowley works

19 January 1974 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare Three-day week operations at British Leyland’s Austin-Morris assembly plant at Cowley, Oxford. have been halved because of internal labour disputes. No vehicles were produced on the […]

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Archive : Leyland plea to drop overtime ban

17 January 1974 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare As British Leyland’s Austin-Morris car plant at Cowley, Oxford, begins its first vehicle production of the week today- the first of its “power on” days, about […]

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Archive : Motor accident put Robinson behind Jaguar

16 January 1974 Keith Adams 0

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD By a special correspondent in London At only 34 a man who entered the motor industry by accident has been given sole charge of Jaguar Cars, one […]

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Archive : BL industrial action

16 January 1974 Keith Adams 0

At Cowley, British Leyland’s troubles are centred on a claim by 3,000 “indirect” workers, the men who provide essential back-up services for the assembly lines, that an agreement guaranteeing them […]

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Archive : Time to bend rules, Lord Stokes says

11 January 1974 Keith Adams 0

Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland, yesterday appealed to his 170,000 United Kingdom employees to work with management to pull the company through the worst crisis Britain had faced for […]

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Archive : Sit-in protest at Leyland plant over lay-off payment

8 January 1974 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakesneare The three-day week arrangements brought a fresh problem for British Leyland at its plant at Cowley, Oxford, yesterday. Its 19,000 workers have been allocated Thursdays, Fridays […]

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Archive : Lofty England leaves Jaguar

7 January 1974 Keith Adams 0

Lofty England leaves Jaguar The British motor industry will be poorer as a result of the fading from the scene of the former Lancaster bomber pilot and world famous racing […]

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Archive : BL and the three-day week

7 January 1974 Keith Adams 0

British Leyland, the biggest of the car companies, averages £32m worth of vehicle production a week in normal times, ranging from Minis to double-decker buses, and including both high-volume and […]

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Archive : Car companies’ bleak start to three-day week

2 January 1974 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare The motor industry looks as if it is going to find itself right away in the front line of union and shopfloor opposition to the three-day […]

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Archive : The three-day week comes into force

1 January 1974 Keith Adams 0

The Three-Day Week was one of several measures introduced in the United Kingdom by the Conservative Government 1970-1974 to conserve electricity, the production of which was severely limited due to […]

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