Month: January 1974

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]