Month: August 1974

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]