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Month: March 1975

AB Smith
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Archive : Farewell to a teaboy that reached the top

29 March 1975 Keith Adams 0

DAILY EXPRESS Fifty years ago Bernard Smith joined the Rover Car Company as a seven shilling a week tea boy. He retires next week as £20,000 a year chairman of […]

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Harris Mann
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Archive : A Beauty off the drawing board

27 March 1975 Keith Adams 0

DAILY EXPRESS By David Benson A car designer who looks more like the lead guitarist in a pop group is today the toast of the British motor industry. This is […]

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ADO71 at launch
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Archive : The ADO71 Austin/Morris/Wolseley 18-22 series is announced

26 March 1975 Keith Adams 1

DAILY MIRROR Sharp Wedge Is A Winner By Patrick Mennem British Leyland launch a wedge shaped attack on the highly competitive medium sized car market today. A new range of […]

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Archive : Face To Face With The Man In The Hot Seat

25 March 1975 Keith Adams 0

DAILY MIRROR The Government’s industrial adviser, Sir Don Ryder, and his team of experts are due to report this week on the future of the troubled motor giant, British Leyland. […]

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Archive : Consultation’ rules for £50m Leyland loans

21 March 1975 Keith Adams 0

By Anthony Rowley There must be consultations with the Government before British Leyland negotiates any “major” pay awards in future. This condition is included in the terms announced yesterday of […]

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Archive : Leyland puts another 5000 on short time

20 March 1975 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland yesterday announced more redundancies and short-time working in some of its big plants, bringing the total number of redundancies in the pipeline to some […]

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Innocenti Mini
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Archive : That’s our baby, Italian style

18 March 1975 Keith Adams 8

DAILY EXPRESS By Leslie Nichol Britain, which gave the world the Mini, is almost certain to get another one, from Italy. At a time when everybody is demanding economical motoring, […]

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Archive : British Leyland toolmakers end strike

14 March 1975 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare The unofficial strike by British Leyland toolmakers, which has cost the company about £15m worth of lost production during the past month and led to the […]

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Archive : Leyland at head of British sales league

11 March 1975 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb British Leyland sold a remarkable 44.8 per cent of the 112,000 cars registered in Britain in February, it was announced yesterday. Sales of British Leyland cars were […]

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Archive : 200 strikers face redundancy as British Leyland loses contract

10 March 1975 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare Many of the British Leyland toolroom workers whose unofficial strike is seriously disrupting car production will find themselves without jobs when the dispute is over. About […]

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Archive : 6000 Jaguar workers laid off again by strike

7 March 1975 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare Production of Jaguar cars at British Leyland’s Coventry plant halted again last night and the 6,000 workers were laid off. The plant has worked only four […]

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Archive : Leyland wants cut of 400 jobs at Coventry works

6 March 1975 Keith Adams 0

By Clifford Webb British Leyland wants 400 of the 4,000 staff and manual employees at its Coventry engine works to accept voluntary redundancy. Confirming this last night, a company spokesman […]

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