
Archive : Government puts £75m more into BL
BL has received a further tranche of £75m of public funds towards the total of £300m earmarked by the Government for the company’s 1980-81 new model and rationalization plans. The […]
BL has received a further tranche of £75m of public funds towards the total of £300m earmarked by the Government for the company’s 1980-81 new model and rationalization plans. The […]
By Clifford Webb A further short decline in the already depressed American car market combined with the falling dollar has forced BL to announce extended short-time working for its MG […]
By Brvan Appleyard Working hours lost at BL because of internal disputes fell by 52 per cent last year and by a further 30 per cent in the first quarter […]
By Clifford Webb Midlands Industrial Correspondent British Leyland workers ignored the call in such numbers that delighted factory managers abandoned plans to count those who reported. Instead they counted those […]
From Our Correspondent Birmingham Mr Derek Robinson, the British Leyland shop steward convener who was dismissed, has been refused leave to make a claim for unfair dismissal. An industrial tribunal […]
From Our Correspondent Birmingham Mr Derek Robinson, the shop steward convener dismissed by British Leyland as a threat to industrial peace told a Birmingham industrial tribunal yesterday that “on countless […]
DAILY MIRROR The National Enterprise Board is to hand over control of British Leyland to Sir Keith Joseph’s Department of Industry. In future Sir Keith will be directly responsible for […]
From Our Correspondent Birmingham Mr Derek Robinson. the forrmer shop steward convener at Brioish Leyland’s Longbridge plant, was stunned in-to -disbelief when thle companv dismissed him. That was made plain […]
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