Month: March 1975

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]