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Month: August 1974

Keith Hopkins
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Archive : Driving ahead

30 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

The news that Keith Hopkins, the British Leyland public relations chief, is to take over as managing director of the corporation’s Austin Morris division was causing a good deal of […]

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Tony Spalding
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Archive : PR chief is appointed to top post at Leyland

30 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Mr Keith Hopkins, the 44- year-old head of British Leyland’s public relations department, is to become managing director of the group’s Austin-Morris division. This announcement was greeted […]

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Archive : The scale of BL’s problems

30 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

Here is the plant-by-plant position in the industry yesterday: British Leyland: Production has been halted at the central transmissions plant at Washwood Heath, Birmingham, by a strike involving 2,000 workers, […]

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Archive : Why Thousands Are Idle

29 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

Six thousand workers at the Austin and Morris factories in Cowley have been laid off because of a pay strike in Birmingham. The strike, by 2,000 men at British Leyland’s […]

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Archive : Author of ‘The Leyland Papers’ courts controversy

29 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

British Leyland yesterday denied that its Cowley car plant was a “skiver’s paradise”, as alleged earlier by Mr Graham Turner, a journalist and economist who has made a study of […]

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Archive : Leyland Men Hit Back At Skivers Paradise Remarks

28 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

EVENING TIMES Comments by a former BBC economics correspondent that a factory complex owned by British Leyland was a ‘skivers paradise’ have started a storm of protest. The allegation was […]

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Archive : UK Production at a standstill

28 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

With all the American-owned Chrysler Company’s car production in Britain at a standstill, yesterday British Leyland had to stop its Mini and Allegro assembly lines at Longbridge, Birmingham, and lay […]

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Archive : Components strike may halt Leyland assembly

27 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland is facing a shut-down on car assembly operation at its Austin Morris plants at Longbridge, Birmingham, and Cowley, Oxford. Several thousand workers are likely […]

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Archive : Dispute resolved

24 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

A two-week- old strike by 260 workers at British Leyland’s Butec factory at Leyland, Lancashire, ended yesterday when the men accepted a wage increase of about £5 for all employees. […]

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Archive : Alvis at a standstill

21 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

roduction at the Alvis works in Coventry, British Leyland’s military vehicle division, was again at a standstill yesterday because of a strike by 82 inspectors. The rest of the 1,500 […]

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Archive : Production halted at Alvis

20 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

Production was halted yesterday at the Alvis factory in Coventry, British Leyland’s military vehicle division, because of a strike by 82 inspectors over a pay dispute. The plant’s 1,500 production […]

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Archive : Solihull workers return to work

19 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

The British Leyland Rover assembly plant at Solihull, Birmingham, is expected to be back in operation today after being closed all last week with 3,000 workers laid off because of […]

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Archive : Austin-Morris industrial issues

15 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN AUSTIN MORRIS NEWS Production was resumed at British Leyland’s Austin-Morris factory at Longbridge, Birmingham, after a strike by 400 toolsetters and labourers. The dispute , which began when […]

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Archive : 8500 are laid off in disputes at British Leyland

15 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare More than 8,500 British Leyland workers were still laid off yesterday because of continuing labour disputes affecting four plants. All Rover car production at Solihull, Birmingham, […]

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Archive : Longbridge walkout causes new stoppage

14 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare Trouble in the British Leyland car plants persisted yesterday. All production remained at a standstill in the Rover complex at Solihull, Birmingham, and a fresh walkout […]

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Archive : Strike by 150 inspectors halts Rover production at Solihull

13 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent British Leyland, which already faces a crisis over mounting production losses due to disputes, and a lower share of the diminishing home market […]

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Archive : Leyland’s last piecework outpost – Industry in the Regions

12 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

by R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland’s long and difficult battle to reform its wages structure now appears to be moving into its final stage. The last big effort centres on […]

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Archive : Strike makes 3000 idle at Longbridge

10 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent A strike over the sacking of two men alleged to have been fighting on the shop floor stopped car engine production at British […]

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Archive : British Leyland seeks speed-up of scheme to cut its work force

8 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb British Leyland is expected to offer early retirement or voluntary redundancy to workers throughout the group within the next week or so in an attempt to speed […]

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Archive : Ford takes the lead

6 August 1974 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb Ford is now outselling British Leyland in the United Kingdom for the first time since the British group was formed six years ago. This development will be […]

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