Also in Coventry the labour troubles in British Leyland’s Triumph car plant, which has brought another complete standstill in vehicle production, became even more deeply entrenched yesterday. A mass meeting […]
By R. W. Shakesneare More than 8,000 workers were idle, either on strike or laid off, at British Leyland’s Triumph car factories in Coventry yesterday. Another 700 men were laid […]
by R. W. Shakesneare British Leyland’s main Triumph car plant in Coventry was brought to a standstill yesterday within 24 hours of reopening, after a two-week shutdown because of a […]
THE GUARDIAN NEW DISPUTE AS CAR PLANT TALKS BEGIN By Geoffrey Whitely Three separate sets of negotiations opened yesterday at Triumph car plants in Coventry and on Merseyside in an […]
From Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent, Birmingham In a massive demonstration said by those taking part to be “expressing sympathy with the victims and disgust and revulsion with the bombers”, […]
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By R. W. Shakespeare Within hours of recalling 5,000 workers laid-off from the British Leyland Triumph car plant in Coventry Yesterday the management had to send them home again for […]
By R. W. Shakespeare All of British Leyland’s Triumph car production is at a standstill and 5,650 workers are laid off in the Midlands and on Merseyside. British Leyland’s present […]
THE GUARDIAN TRIUMPH NEWS A strike by 45 key workers at the Triumph car plant at Coventry which has paralysed all production, moved into its second week. Strikers voted to […]
Production was at a standstill again yesterday at Rover Triumph in Coventry because of a strike by 27 men. The company has laid off 3,500 workers in Coventry, several hundred […]
At British Leyland’s Triumph plant, also in Coventry, production is still halted by a strike of 25 control room operators who are demanding an interim pay increase. Another 3,000 production […]
Almost 10,000 British Leyland workers in the Midlands were idle yesterday as the effects of the strike at the company’s Castle Bromwich body plant in Birmingham spread. The strike by […]
Two thousand assembly workers at Jaguar’s Coventry plant were laid off yesterday because of a strike at another British Leyland factory. The strike in the paint shop at the corporation’s […]
One of the British motor industry’s most successful production experts is looking for a job. Yesterday Frank Tilston, British Leyland’s 43-year-old director of manufacturing plans, left the company after a […]
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