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Archive : Innocenti workers strike over job cuts
Workers at Leyland Innocenti’s plant near Milan today staged a half-day strike in protest against British Leyland’s decision to cut the labour force by a third, from 4,600 to about […]
Month: July 1975
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Archive : Seat buys Leyland assembly plant in Spain for £8.8m
Madrid, July 22 British Leyland today sold its Pamplona car assembly plant to. the Spanish company Seat for an agreed price of 1100m pesetas (about £8.8m). The sale includes a […]
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Archive : The Killing Of A Car Giant
DAILY MIRROR By Robert Head City financier Jim Slater told British Leyland shareholders yesterday why their firm is broke. Waving a page from the Daily Mirror, Mr Slater, a director […]
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Archive : Shareholders Told Of Big BLMC Losses
EVENING TIMES British Leyland Motor Corporation are still making substantial losses. Lord Stokes, the chairman, told this to nearly 1000 angry shareholders – who have the chance of being paid […]
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Archive : Stay-out vote by car parts strikers on eve of holiday
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland components workers, whose month-old strike has cost more than £18.5m worth of lost car production and made 11,000 other workers idle, are to continue […]
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Archive : More labour troubles
By R. W. Shakepeare British Leyland has run into more labour troubles to add to those which during the past two weeks have caused about £14.5m-worth of production losses in […]
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Archive : Strike halts 18/22 output at Cowley
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland’s latest labour problems worsened yesterday when production of the recently launched 18/22 car range at the big Cowley, Oxford, plant had to be stopped […]
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Archive : Disruption spreading at Leyland
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent British Leyland, with nearly 8,000 workers idle and production heavily disrupted at plants in the Midlands and on Merseyside, may be forced to […]