By Clifford Webb British Leyland has shipped six huge presses from its failed Australian factory and is now installing them in the group’s body pressing plant at Castle Bromwich. The […]
THE GUARDIAN By GEOFFREY WHITELEY, Labour Staff Welders at a Birmingham factory, whose strike has stopped production of the British Leyland Land-Rover yesterday rejected an agreement made by their union […]
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland had to lay off nearly 500 workers at its Land-Rover assemby plant at Solihull, in the Midlands, yesterday. Last night the company said that […]
The 18-22 Series is renamed Princess after just six months in production. […]
By R. W. Shakespeare Agreement has been reached between the British Leyland Cars management and unions on the most advanced plans so far for worker participation and control in British […]
The latest to go is Allen Sheppard, the 42-year-old director in charge of service and parts for the new British Leyland Cars Company. An ex-Ford and ex-Chrysler man he was […]
By Clifford Webb Midlands Industrial Corresnondent British Leyland Cars wants to cut its workforce of 116,000 by between 20,000 and 30,000 within the next six months, motor industry sources reported […]
DAILY MIRROR By Terry Pattinson Thousands of British Leyland car jobs are to be axed in the next few months. This was clear last night after talks in Blackpool between […]
By Roger Vielvoye British Leyland has stepped in to save the 700 jobs at the Marshall-Fowler plant in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, by purchasing the last British-owned crawler tractor manufacturer from the […]
LEYLAND CARS “Under the auspices of the Leyland Cars regime and in the spirit of increased inter-divisional partnership, the Triumph SD2 was replaced by the TM1 project (for Triumph-Morris). TM1 […]
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