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6 Aug 1959
FROM OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT When the annual holidays at Morris Motors' plant at Cowley, Oxford, end on Monday, the strike of 3,000...
6 Aug 1970
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE Labour troubles in the car industry showed no signs of easing yesterday. For the second successive day there...
6 Aug 1973
By R. W. Shakespeare Car and engineering plants in the Midlands face another week of disruption caused by labour disputes, with increasing...
6 Aug 1973
In a deal which British Leyland says is worth "a little over £4m", the group has gained control of a Spanish car firm. The Spanish...
6 Aug 1974
By Clifford Webb Ford is now outselling British Leyland in the United Kingdom for the first time since the British group was formed...
6 Aug 1975
Mr Bernard Jackman, 62, managing director of British Leyland's Rover-Triumph group, has resigned. He was appointed in 1973. He said...
6 Aug 1975
THE GUARDIAN By Geoffrey Whiteley British Leyland's most troublesome strike for some time – a seven week-old dispute at its Hemel...
6 Aug 1987
Rover Group P.L.C., aided in part by American sales of its Sterling car, said it reduced its after-tax loss by 80 percent in the first...
5 Aug 1959
MORRIS STRIKE TALKS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, Aug. 4 Executive officers of the 10 unions with membership in the Cowley factory...
5 Aug 1970
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE All car production at British Leyland's giant Austin/Morris division plant at Longbridge is threatened by two...
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