Month: August 1975

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 […]

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.” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]