Month: April 1975

Mr John Barber, managing director, whose job disappears in the restructuring when Mr Alex Park, Leyland’s financial director, takes, over the new role of chief executive, said last night that […]

By David Young and Penny Symon After what was probably the last meeting of the British Leyland board in its present form had ended at 6 pm yesterday, senior management […]

Sweeping changes ahead for giant motor group The Government is to take over British Leyland, the giant motor manufacturing company. Speculation about the group’s future.was ended in the Commons yesterday […]

David Benson LORD STOKES was never in favour of the Harold Wilson inspired merger of British Motor Holdings and Leyland Triumph that formed British Leyland. Once it was achieved, however, […]

DAILY EXPRESS By Graham Turner Author of “The Leyland Papers,” the inside story of our biggest car-makers. When I went to British Leyland’s London headquarters last week to see Lord […]

The crisis in the motor industry and in particular British Leyland’s nail-biting wait for the publication of the Ryder report today are providing the perfect platform for the new Messiah […]

By Andrew Goodrick-Clarke Soon after Lord Stokes, British Leyland’s chairman, met Mr Wedgwood Benn, Secretary of State for Industry, yesterday morning the company requested a suspension of dealings in its […]

By Clifford Webb Shop stewards at British Leyland’s Rover car plant were told yesterday that they must accept another 500 redundancies or start three-day working. The company has already called […]

By R. W. .Shakespeare All car production at British Leyland’s Austin Morris plant at Cowley, Oxford, was stopped yesterday and more than 11,000 workers made idle. Most serious casualty of […]

By Peter Wainwright British Leyland has approached the Department of Industry for more help. Parliamentary approval for government loan guarantees of £50m was won last December when it was decided […]

By Clifford Webb Lord Stokes, British Leyland’s chairman, is understood to have written to the Prime Minister stressing the need for early government action on Sir Don Ryder’s report and […]

DAILY MIRROR By Robert Head A big personal worry hangs over 150 top executives in British Leyland — apart from their other problems. They stand to lose an average of […]

Shop stewards at British Leyland factories are to fight any attempts to dismiss workers. They fear that rationalization proposals recommended by Sir Don Ryder, who has been investigating the ailing […]

By Clifford Webb British Leyland distributors and dealers yesterday reported so much interest in the company’s new model 1800/2200 they are predicting that it will become the best selling large […]