On this day
12 Apr 1961
2,200 ROVER CAR MEN SENT HOME The Rover Motor Company, at whose factory at Acocks Green, Birmingham, 65 inspectors have been on strike...
12 Apr 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent The effect of the two day old sit-in by 2,000 workers who have been suspended at...
12 Apr 1979
DAILY EXPRESS LEYLAND REBEL TOASTS 'SUCCESS' By David Jack No surrender. That was the battle cry last night of Leyland militants....
12 Apr 1980
By Clifford Webb The 'initial' success achieved by Sir Michael Edwardes, chairman of BL, in imposing his deadlocked pay and working...
12 Apr 1984
Now a three-way battle for the fleets General Motors and Ford, the world's biggest car manufacturers, are locked in a bitter struggle...
12 Apr 1985
'Sabotage' blast at Cowley denied Austin Rover and the police have denied that the explosion at its Cowley plant on Wednesday was...
12 Apr 1999
The Land Rover Freelander has been voted "Best 4x4" in the influential Fleet News 1999 Awards. The all new, recently launched Discovery,...
12 Apr 2000
Businesses in Coventry and Warwickshire affected by BMW’s decision to sell Rover are being invited to a special meeting to discuss...
11 Apr 1961
B.M.C. BACK TO FIVE-DAY WEEK. Nearly all the British Motor Corporation's labour force of 60,000 workers are now back on a five-day...
11 Apr 1962
1,000 MOTOR WORKERS WALK OUT FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT LIVERPOOL, APRIL 10 A thousand workers at the Standard Triumph motor factory...
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