Month: September 1979

From TIME magazine Business: A Name Acquired, another Retired Monday, Sep. 24, 1979 For at least two generations of Americans, it was the saucy, two-seat symbol of unfettered youth, an […]

THE GUARDIAN CONTEMPT FUELS PARK ROYAL REVOLOUTION By Nick Davies When the body shop at British Leyland’s Park Royal works ran out of London bus floors last week they found […]

DAILY EXPRESS UNION THREAT OVER LEYLAND CUTS By Barry Devney Britain’s biggest union is drawing up battle plans to prevent the “surgery ” which British Leyland’s chief Sir Michael Edwardes […]

DAILY EXPRESS The news was bleak, too, for British Leyland last night when all major unions had rejected the plan by company boss Sir Michael Edwardes to streamline the ailing […]

DAILY EXPRESS ENGINEERS STRIKE For British Leyland. the anti-strike revolt grew at Castle Bromwich (Birmingham) as about 3,000 workers crossed picket lines. But 12 Jaguar-Rover-Triumph factories and four Austin Morris […]

THE GUARDIAN STRIKE WARNING OVER LEYLAND REDUNDANCY PLAN By Keith Harper, Labour Editor Shop stewards representing Transport and General Workers Union members at British Leyland yesterday threatened to strike if […]

Bus Makers Take BL For A Ride Leyland bus makers were accused yesterday of deliberately keeping production low. Commenting on the decision, to shut down the Titan, plant in North […]

DAILY EXPRESS LEYLAND UNIONS SET FOR A FIGHT Union leaders are squaring up for a battle, to save thousands of jobs threatened by the British Leyland cutbacks. Urgent talks were […]

DAILY EXPRESS THE ONLY WAY LEFT FOR LEYLAND By Jeremy Gates It has been nourished, for these four long years since the days of the Ryder “rescue,” with £1 million […]

DAILY MIRROR Bitter Unions Hit Out Union Reaction reaction to the Leyland cutbacks was shocked and bitter. Engineering union president Terry Duffy said: “We don’t accept there must be compulsory […]

Daily Express THE PARTY’S OVER By Peter Hitchens After the party, the new dawn breaks bleakly for Leyland today , a prospect of closing factories and vanishing jobs for the […]

THE GUARDIAN The Engineering Dispute Rumbles on By John Ardill British Leyland has 8,000 workers idle , on strike or laid off ,as it tries to get back to normal […]

DAILY MIRROR Strike Revolt Flops As Car Workers Stay Home The great anti-strike protest turned into a major flop yesterday. Thousands of engineering workers who had threatened to defy union […]

DAILY EXPRESS CAR STRIKERS SET FOR ANGRY CLASH By David Jack SCORES of extra police will be standing by for tomorrow’s showdown in the anti-strike rebellion at Leyland’s biggest car […]

DAILY MIRROR Leyland To Slash 6000 More Jobs By Alan Law British Leyland bosses are planning to axe another 6000 jobs on top of the 12500 cutback already announced. This […]