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2 May 1962
DAILY EXPRESS 500 CAR MEN IDLE Five hundred British Motor Corporation assembly workers at Morris Motors, Oxford, were sent home...
2 May 1963
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD. MAY. 1 The assembly lines at Morris Motors, Cowley, were halted again today as a result of stoppages...
2 May 1968
Even before the British Leyland Motor Corporation has officially come into being representatives of the 180,000 workers have formed...
2 May 1969
By MICHAEL THOMAS Docks, national newspapers, and sections of the car industry, were worst affected by widespread May Day strikes...
2 May 1969
DAILY MIRROR Thousands of workers obeyed the call to strike against the Government's plans for union reform. Most factory workers...
2 May 1970
THE GUARDIAN Repercussions of the strike continue to be felt in the car industry. As 500 men returned to work at the Land-Rover plant...
2 May 1973
It was estimated that 1,600,000 workers yesterday rallied to the TUC call for a one-day strike in protest at -the Government's counter-inflation...
2 May 1974
From Our Correspondent Oxford Workers at British Leyland's car assembly plant at Cowley, last night adjourned their meeting at Oxford...
2 May 1974
From Our Correspondent, Oxford Mr Alan Thornett, whom British Leyland refused to recognize as a shop steward, is standing down as...
2 May 1974
Bv Maurice Barnfather British Leyland's first half loss, predicted at the annual meeting in March by Lord Stokes, the chairman, turns...
2 May 1975
British Leyland has been first to be badly affected by component shortages largely because it was keeping stocks at its assembly plants...
2 May 1975
OUR INDUSTRIAL REPORTER THE RYDER Report on British Leyland published last week delivers a stunning blow at the incompetence of the...
2 May 1985
By Jonathan Davis, Business Correspondent The recent setback in BL's recovery programme, which has raised fresh doubts about the state...
2 May 2000
BY ANTONY HOPKER Confusion reigned over the future of Rover today as venture capitalists Alchemy Partners claimed they were not out...
2 May 2003
A union leader said MG Rover misjudged the mood of workers at its Longbridge factory in Birmingham after they voted to call off a planned...
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