On this day
23 Dec 1959
The directors of Standard-Triumph International yesterday announced that agreement in principle had been reached with Hall Engineering...
23 Dec 1972
By Our Labour Correspondent Factories in London, Essex, Surrey, Sheffield, and Oxford were halted yesterday as about 100,000 engineering...
23 Dec 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland is recruiting more workers at Jaguar, Coventry, with the intention...
23 Dec 1974
General Franco's government this weekend approved the sale of British Leyland's Spanish subsidiary, Authi, to General Motors. A high...
23 Dec 1975
By Clifford Webb A new management shake-up is under way at Leyland Cars. Mr Bill Davis has resigned from the key post of. manufacturing...
23 Dec 1975
By Andrew Goodrick-Clarke Financial Editor British Leyland, now the most important investment in the portfolio of Lord Ryder's National...
23 Dec 1997
At Longbridge the last Rover 100, formerly known as the R6 Metro, ceases production on this day.
23 Dec 1999
THE GUARDIAN Poor sales and now, awkward questions The government can hardly claim to have been surprised by yesterday's confirmation...
22 Dec 1961
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, DEC. 21 During an inquiry at Oxford today into a British Motor Corporation plan for a spare parts depot...
22 Dec 1970
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland faces a ban on overtime and recruitment of new labour throughout...
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