On this day
2 Jun 1959
CLERKS GO BACK Several hundred clerks at the Standard Motor Company's three main works at Coventry, who struck on Friday in protest...
2 Jun 1961
With effect from June 1, Mr B. L. Mackie has been appointed as director of personnel and welfare for the British Motor Corporation,...
2 Jun 1969
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE, Northern Industrial Correspondent As the motor industry today enters another week of mounting labour troubles...
2 Jun 1972
THE GUARDIAN A union leader was shouted down at Liverpool yesterday when he tried to persuade members to call off an unofficial strike...
2 Jun 1973
By Clifford Webb Nearly 20,000 car workers were idle yesterday as labour disputes already affecting British Leyland's Austin-Morris...
1 Jun 1963
The 200 maintenance men at Standard- Triumph also agreed to resume over the weekend, allowing the 6,000 production men who also stayed...
1 Jun 1970
CAR magazine Doug Blain on the design thinking, behind the all-purpose Range Rover. Despite their conservative image, Rover have...
1 Jun 1970
The Industrial Reorganisation Corporation is to grant British Leyland a £10m. renewable loan facility for plant modernization. A condition...
1 Jun 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Eleventh hour talks seemed last night to have averted a threatened shutdown of Jaguar's...
1 Jun 1973
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent More than 14,000 car workers were laid off at British Leyland's Longbridge plant...
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