Archive : BMC factory extends shift working

26 January 1963 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, JAN. 25

Night-shift working at the British Motor Corporation’s Morris Motors factory at Cowley, Oxford, is to be extended next month to a further 1,000 workers to produce, in the first place, 800 more cars a week. The men have agreed to work alternately two weeks on days and two weeks on nights.

Morris Motors have recruited several hundred workers in recent weeks to enable them to extend shift working.

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Created www.austin-rover.co.uk in 2001 and built it up to become the world's foremost reference source for all things BMC, Leyland and Rover Group, before renaming it AROnline in 2007.

Is the Editor of the Parkers website and price guide, formerly editor of Classic Car Weekly, and launch editor/creator of Modern Classics magazine. Has contributed to various motoring titles including Octane, Practical Classics, Evo, Honest John, CAR magazine, Autocar, Pistonheads, Diesel Car, Practical Performance Car, Performance French Car, Car Mechanics, Jaguar World Monthly, MG Enthusiast, Modern MINI, Practical Classics, Fifth Gear Website, Radio 4, and the the Motoring Independent...

Likes 'conditionally challenged' motors and taking them on unfeasible adventures all across Europe.