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3 May 1960
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MAY 2 An unofficial strike by 100 paint shop workers at Morris Motors Ltd., Oxford. caused 600 men...
3 May 1961
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, MAY 2 The growing problem of storing finished vehicles awaiting dispatch has been partly solved...
3 May 1962
BACK TO NORMAL AT COWLEY WORKS Work was back to normal yesterday at the Morris Motor factory at Cowley. Oxford, after Tuesday's strike...
3 May 1963
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD. MAY 2 Production lines at the Morris Motors works at Cowley, Oxford, were stopped for the second day...
3 May 1963
DAILY MIRROR Two dozen women yesterday decided it was too cold for work in the Jaguar car factory... And as a result 650 men workers...
3 May 1969
GLASGOW HERALD Expansion of Albion Motors Ltd will soon be concentrated in additional space at the former Harland & Wolff premises...
3 May 1973
By Our Northern Industrial Correspondent No vehicles are being completed at British Leyland's bus and truck factories at Leyland,...
3 May 1973
By Roy Mackie In his long career from apprentice to chairman at British Leyland, Lord Stokes has certainly learned one art to perfection...
3 May 1975
By R. W. Shakesneare More than 20,000 British Leyland car workers were idle yesterday with much of the Austin Morris division car...
3 May 1975
DAILY MIRROR British Leyland chiefs yesterday accepted the Ryder plan for a Government takeover of the ailing car empire. But they...
3 May 1979
The General Election brought to power Margaret Thatcher's Conservative party which embraced the new free market philosophy. It therefore...
3 May 1989
NEW YORK TIMES The luxury car maker Jaguar P.L.C. laid off more than 8,000 workers today because of a dispute that has paralyzed production....
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