Archive : Leyland to prune Allegro car range
By Peter Waymark Motoring Correspondent British Leyland is dropping three models in its Austin Allegro small saloon range, less than a year after the car was introduced, because of poor […]
By Peter Waymark Motoring Correspondent British Leyland is dropping three models in its Austin Allegro small saloon range, less than a year after the car was introduced, because of poor […]
DAILY MIRROR British Leyland boss Lord Stokes called last night for a new plan to replace ” the same worn-out -solutions ” to Britain’s money troubles. Attacking the Government’s efforts, […]
MOTOR THE NEW MAN AT JAGUAR Chief Executive Geoffrey Robinson talks to Philip Turner about his own post and Jaguar’s future. They bought him in to revitalise Innocenti. He tore […]
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent British Leyland has decided to attempt to isolate the militants at its strike-bound Cowley car plant at Oxford. It will re-open the assembly […]
By R. W. Shakespeare Car production was again the main casualty of the national overtime ban in engineering as the campaign in support of pay demands covering two million workers […]
DAILY MIRROR Lord Stokes denied reports that the Government might take a controlling stake in his company — Britain’s biggest exporters — for up to £70,000,000. Lord Stokes , who […]
By Clifford Webb After a weekend of growing speculation on its future, British Leyland last night issued a strongly worded statement denying reports suggesting it was seeking financial help from […]
BY Clifford Webb The national overtime ban by engineering union workers is already causing serious production losses to British Leyland. Yesterday all car assembly stopped at Austin-Morris at Longbridge and […]
By R. W. Shakespeare The overtime ban in the engineering industry, called by the unions in support of pay demands for two million workers in about 5,000 companies, began to […]
By R. W. Shakespeare The huge British Leyland Austin-Morris car plant at Cowley, Oxford, which reopened yesterday morning after the Easter holidays, is again at a standstill because of labour […]
From R. W. Shakespeare More trouble could be on the way at the strike hit British Leyland car plant at Cowley, Oxford, when it reopens on Tuesday morning following the […]
By R. W. Shakespeare All car production at British Leyland’s two Austin-Morris plants at Cowley, Oxford and Longbridge, Birmingham was at a standstill yesterday with some 17,000 workers either on […]
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland has run into more labour troubles. Yesterday several car assembly lines were at a standstill with about 10,000 workers idle through strikes and lay-offs […]
By R. W. Shakespeare A strike that has cost British Leyland some £10m worth of Marina car output at Cowley, Oxford and led to a management warning that men who […]
THE OBSERVER THREE YEARS HARD LABOUR By David Wilson After losing £100 million worth of production from the three-day week British Leyland is the only car manufacturer which has gone […]
By R. W. Shakespeare Labour disputes, which have cost British Leyland some £8m. worth in lost car production over the past eight days, again stopped output of Marina and Mini […]
By R. W. Shakespeare A fresh wave of strikes in the car, components and engineering industries, is taking a heavy toll of production. Output losses are running into millions of […]
By R. W. Shakespeare Continuing troubles on the shop floor at British Leyland’s car plant at Cowley, Oxford, led to another shutdown of all assembly of the Marina car range […]
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent Production of the Marina car range at British Leyland’s Cowley car plant is likely to be at a standstill again today as the […]
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