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Alec Issigonis

Archive : Issigonis – The Giant Who Thought Small

16 July 1969 Keith Adams 5

DAILY MIRROR By Richard Sear No man looks less designed to start off the cult of the miniature. Stooping just under six feet in height, he looms large at any […]

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Archive : Interview – Charles Griffin

1 May 1969 Keith Adams 2

HIGH ROAD Charles Griffin, Director of Engineering at the Austin Morris Division, discusses the Austin Maxi with the Editor. Charles Griffin – This car has been a general talking point […]

Maxis from at their launch at Estoril in 1969 - reading the contemporary newspaper reports are fascinating...
Archive

Archive : Grand Leyland launch

14 April 1969 Keith Adams 0

By CLIFFORD WEBB British Leyland is adding the final polish to one of the most costly and painstakingly prepared new car launches seen in this country. Nothing has been spared […]

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Archive : The Aggressive Apprentice

25 September 1968 Keith Adams 3

DAILY MIRROR Donald Gresham Stokes, of British Leyland, is the most successful product of a vanishing, British breed. He is the 4d.-an-hour engineering apprentice turned £45,000-a-year top executive. The twist […]

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Archive : Welcome in the unions for Turnbull’s Leyland post

19 September 1968 Keith Adams 0

By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midlands Industrial Correspondent Sir Donald Stokes’s appointment of 42-year-old George Turnbull to one of the key British Leyland Motor Corporation posts, was welcomed yesterday both by his […]

Joe Edwards
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Archive : Edwards is first big car merger casualty

19 April 1968 Keith Adams 0

By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midlands Industrial Correspondent The first major casualty in the merging of BMH and Leyland was announced last night. Joe Edwards. 60-year-old managing director of BMC and Sir […]

Alec Issigonis

Archive : Creative role for Issigonis in BMC board switch

28 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

By GEOFFREY CHARLES, Motoring Correspondent A high-level reshuffle of BMC directors’ areas of responsibility was announced yesterday as part of a streamlining process before completion of the BMH-Leyland merger. The […]

Alec Issigonis

Archive : Mr Issigonis looks to the future

25 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

CARS AND DRIVERS by GEOFFREY CHARLES Whatever the outcome of the BMH-Leyland merger in model rationalization, intensified marketing or expansion-and any joint project will not appear for at least 3 […]

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Archive : BMC/Leyland merger

15 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

On this day: Sir Donald Stokes leave Sir Siegmund Warburg’s flat at 2.45am. Later this day at the Leyland headquarters at Berkley Square, London, Stokes he reports the events of […]

Sir George Harriman
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Archive : Sir George Harriman interview

13 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

Sir George Harriman, chairman of British Leyland Motor Corporation, talks to Geoffrey Charles, Motoring Correspondent, about the company’s plans Sir George Harriman pointed from the window of his Longbridge office. […]

Archive

Archive : British Leyland cuts prices – Sir George Harriman interview

2 February 1968 Keith Adams 0

THE GUARDIAN Sir George Harriman and Sir Donald Stokes, joint chiefs of the new British Leyland Motor Corporation, are united in their belief that they can capture a significantly larger […]

Archive

Archive : Stokes: ‘My most agonising choice’

21 January 1968 Keith Adams 0

THE OBSERVER By Peter Deeley Sir Donald Stokes, head of Leyland Motors,’very nearly’ made a takeover bid for British Motor Holdings instead of last week’s £320 million merger – and […]

Alec Issigonis

Archive : Interview – Motor meets Alec Issigonis

15 August 1962 Keith Adams 1

MOTOR WHY IS THE ADO16? Alec Issigonis, technical director of the British Motor Corporation and Charles Griffin, chief engineer, answer questions from our technical editor. Joseph Lowrey, MOTOR: As soon […]

Sir Alec Issigonis
Alec Issigonis

Archive : Issigonis promoted

14 November 1961 Keith Adams 0

Mr Alec Issigonis’s New B.M.C. Post FROM OUR MIDLAND CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 13 The name of the man who will head the British Motor Corporation’s new amalgamated design unit when […]

Harriman, Lord and Issigonis - BMC power brokers
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Archive : Harriman takes over from Lord

8 November 1961 Keith Adams 1

Man In The News From Our Midland Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 7 Young George has taken over at last. It was officially announced today that Mr G. W. Harriman is now […]

Archive

Archive : Sir Leonard Lord Gives Up Post

3 November 1961 Keith Adams 0

FROM OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT Sir Leonard Lord, executive chairman of the British Motor Corporation is to resign at a board meeting to be held on Tuesday. Until that time his […]

Alec Issigonis
Alec Issigonis

Archive : Sir Alec Issigonis

22 October 1961 Keith Adams 0

ISSIGONIS OF BMC Three years ago the head of one of Britain’s biggest car factories prophesied that the British Motor Corporation’s minicar, which cost £10 million to put into production, […]

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