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17 Apr 1959
After three days of inter-union disputes and a series of token stoppages which disrupted production at the Coventry factory of Jaguar...
17 Apr 1961
In The Lyons Den Daily Mail Jaguar Chairman Sir William Lyons is interviewed. "I am now willing to consider putting my company...
17 Apr 1962
Effect of Streamlining B.M.C. Design Forces MOTORS AND MOTORING From Our Motoring Correspondent News of the launching at Longbridge...
17 Apr 1969
DAILY MIRROR Jim Slater , multi-millionaire with the Midas touch in stocks and shares, has brought a new twist to the old tale of...
17 Apr 1970
DAILY EXPRESS By David Jack Europe's most wanted cars came to a halt on the assembly lines last night. REASON: A crippling; shortage...
17 Apr 1972
Nearly 14,000 British Leyland workers will be idle today with production at a standstill at Austin-Morris, Cowley and Triumph and Alvis,...
17 Apr 1973
As the strike by more than 2,000 workers in two Midlands factories of the Rubery Owen group, one of the country's leading component...
17 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare The huge British Leyland Austin-Morris car plant at Cowley, Oxford, which reopened yesterday morning after the...
17 Apr 1980
BL yesterday threatened 18,500 strikers with dismissal unless they resume work by next Wednesday. The move puts Sir Michael Edwardes,...
16 Apr 1959
The dispute between members of the National Union of Vehicle Builders and the Transport and General Workers' Union at Jaguar Cars,...
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