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Month: August 1975

Archive

Archive : Innocenti layoffs rota to replace dismissals

30 August 1975 Keith Adams 0

From John Earle Rome, Aug 29 Leyland Innocenti today reached an agreement with the Italian metalworkers’ unions which overcomes for the immediate future a dispute about its plans to dismiss […]

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Archive : Leyland to phase out range of Guy lorries

21 August 1975 Keith Adams 0

By Edward Townsend British Leyland is to phase out production of its famous 10-year-old Guy range of lorries by the middle of next year, the company announced yesterday. The move, […]

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Opinion

Essay : The great Leyland tragedy

18 August 1975 Keith Adams 0

Donald Stokes concluded his chairmans statement in the first accounts of British Leyland Motor Corporation back in 1968 with the following paragraph: ‘The world is looking to see whether British […]

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Archive : My golden handshake by sacked car chief

16 August 1975 Keith Adams 0

DAILY EXPRESS MY GOLDEN HANDSHAKE BY SACKED CAR CHIEF John Barber, the sacked boss of British Leyland, left his office for the last time yesterday and talked his “golden handshake.” […]

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Archive : Barber dismissed

15 August 1975 Keith Adams 0

Mr John Barber and Mr John Simon, the two most senior casualties of the Ryder Report on British Leyland and the company’s subsequent reorganization, were yesterday formally dismissed. Both men […]

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Archive : Ryder – my faith in Leyland

14 August 1975 Keith Adams 0

DAILY EXPRESS LORD RYDER: MY FAITH IN LEYLAND By John McCormick British Leyland can become one of the nation’s greatest assets. That is the view of the Government’s Industrial adviser […]

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Archive : MP’s savage Ryder report

13 August 1975 Keith Adams 0

The financial and organizational foundations of the new state-owned British Leyland motor company were called in question yesterday in a report by the Commons trade and industry sub-committee. Members of […]

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Archive : Leyland parts strike ends after stopping 18,000 jobs

9 August 1975 Keith Adams 0

By R. W. Shakespeare An eight-week old strike which has made 18.000 British Leyland workers idle and cost more than £25m worth of lost output is to end on Monday. […]

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Archive : Leyland stewards accept participation plan

7 August 1975 Keith Adams 0

BY Clifford Webb A delegate meeting of more than 400 British Levland shop stewards and national union officials yesterday approved the new management’s proposals for implementing the Ryder Committee’s recommendations […]

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Archive : Strike grip on Leyland tightens

6 August 1975 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN By Geoffrey Whiteley British Leyland’s most troublesome strike for some time – a seven week-old dispute at its Hemel Hempstead components factory ~ has now made nearly 16,000 […]

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Archive : Mr Bernard Jackman resigns from Rover-Triumph

6 August 1975 Keith Adams 0

Mr Bernard Jackman, 62, managing director of British Leyland’s Rover-Triumph group, has resigned. He was appointed in 1973. He said in a statement yesterday that his decision to leave after […]

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Archive : Stewards’ vote keeps Leyland strike going

1 August 1975 Keith Adams 0

By David Young Shop stewards at a British Leyland components plant yesterday used their votes to reverse the decision of a meeting of more than 600 workers to end an […]

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By Clifford Webb Midlands Industrial Correspondent The management of Jaguar is meeting 50 shop stewards today to try to settle a strike by 1,800 employees, which has stopped all car assembly work at the Coventry [...]

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