Month: November 1975

By GEOFFREY WHITELEY, Labour Staff The troubles at British Leyland’s car plant at Cowley, Oxford , where the management had threatened to send employees home unless they worked harder , […]

By Edward Laxton and Philip Mellor Work harder – or you will be sent home. That is the threat hanging over 600 British Leyland assembly-line workers at Cowley, Oxford. They […]

DAILY MIRROR By Terry Pattinson and Edward Laxton Angry car workers hit back last night over the dramatic ultimatum from their bosses at British Leyland –” Work harder or you’ll […]

By R. W. Shakespeare Strong criticisms made by Lord Ryder, chairman of the National Enterprise Board, of unofficial strikers in British Leyland appear to have brought a quick response from […]

By Clifford Webb. A hard-hitting report blaming overmanning and ” lack of effort” by workers for Leyland Cars’ failure to compete with Japanese rivals will be put before the first […]

British Leyland’s management bluntly warned 157,000 workers yesterday that they face a bleak future unless they stop striking. Mr Geoff Whalen, personnel director, said in Leyland’s own newspaper, “This is […]

The 42-year-old ex-Pirelli and ex-Ford financial specialist has still to convince many of his British Leyland colleagues that his new role in the corporation is either necessary or justified by […]

AUTOCAR An exclusive interview with Edouard Seidler For months, the men of the Ryder commission had been going through the British Leyland Motor Corporation with a fine tooth comb. The […]

From John Earle British Leyland has backed down from its ultimatum to close its Innocenti subsidiary, assembling Minis in Milan, unless it received a firm reply from the Italian government […]

DAILY EXPRESS By Robin Stafford Rome Thursday A stick of dynamite was hurled into the Rome showroom of the Leyland-Innocenti car firm today – just before talks with the Italian […]