Month: May 1984

Parliament debates the Bathgate closure Mr Peter Shore, chief Opposition spokesman on trade and industry, said in opening the emergency debate. He said the decision meant not only the abandonment […]

BL sales suffer from Ford price-cutting By Clifford Webb, Motoring Correspondent Austin Rover is an early casualty in the price war for new car sales triggered by Ford’s return to […]

Britain Selling Leyland’s Jaguar REUTERS Published: May 23, 1984 Jaguar, a British automobile legend, is to be sold back into private hands later this year after becoming the most profitable […]

JOBS AXED IN BL SHAKE-UP By Paul Wilenius and Frank Urquart Both Mr Tebbit and the Prime Minister spoke of Government regret at the closures. But that failed to appease […]

2,200 jobs to go at truck plants By Jonathan Davis and Ronald Faux More than 2200 workers in BL’s loss-making commercial vehicle business will lose their jobs through the Government’s […]

Land Rover unions end Cardiff fight By Our Motoring Correspondent Union plans to fight the closure of Land Rover’s Cardiff plant have been withdrawn, although the BL company is unable […]

Strike halts output of Montego By Clifford Webb Motoring Correspondent Production of Austin Rover’s new Montego saloon at Cowley was halted last night by the latest in a series of […]

Metro deal A strike at the Austin Rover plant at Longbridge, Birmingham. ended yesterday after 10 days under a settlement which will entail the recruitment of 100 extra workers and […]

News in Brief BL pickets may halt the Montego BL car workers who are on strike will picket the factory gates of the Longbridge plant in Birmingham today in an […]

Threat to Montego and Rover By Clifford Webb Motoring Correspondent Production of the Austin Rover’s new Montego and a new small Rover soon to be launched are threatened by a […]

Metro the top-selling car again but strike casts shadow over BL success By Edward Townsend Industrial Correspondent Evidence that the consumer boom is continuing came yesterday with the news that […]

A strike last night stopped production of the Austin Metro for the second time in three weeks at BL’s Longbridge factory in Birmingham. Men, in the trim department went on […]