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Month: July 1975

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Archive : Innocenti workers strike over job cuts

30 July 1975 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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Archive : Seat buys Leyland assembly plant in Spain for £8.8m

23 July 1975 Keith Adams 0

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

15 July 1975 Keith Adams 3

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

14 July 1975 Keith Adams 0

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

11 July 1975 Keith Adams 0

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

10 July 1975 Keith Adams 0

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

5 July 1975 Keith Adams 0

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

4 July 1975 Keith Adams 0

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 […]

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