Month: May 1984

Bathgate workers support lengthy sit-in By Peter Hetherington Workers at Leyland Vehicles threatened Bathgate factory near Edinburgh yesterday overwhelmingly backed the call for an “indefinite” occupation of the plant , […]

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Cardiff fight By Our Motoring Correspondent Union plans to fight the closure of Land Rover’s Cardiff plant have been withdrawn, although the BL company is unable […]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