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18 Apr 1961
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 17. About 3,500 British Motor Corporation employees will have stopped work by tomorrow...
18 Apr 1968
On this day: Alec Issigonis replies to Sir Donald Stokes letter of April 10th 1968. Dear Sir Donald, I enclose a short resume...
18 Apr 1969
DAILY MIRROR By Bryn Jones As Premier Harold Wilson warned Labour MPs last night against opposing his anti-strike plans, Jaguar chiefs...
18 Apr 1970
End Of The Minor The Morris Minor saloon is to be phased out of production at the end of this year, British Leyland Motor Corporation...
18 Apr 1970
The shortage of windscreen glass has already brought the Jaguar plant in Coventry the standstill. making 1,700 workers idle, and Rover...
18 Apr 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Disc brake supplies for a large part of the car industry will be halted within days...
18 Apr 1972
HOME NEWS By Julian Mounter Motoring Correspondent Sixty thousand Morris Marina cars, two thirds of the total production, have been...
18 Apr 1973
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland had to lay off more workers at its Castle Bromwich car body plant yesterday, bringing the total...
18 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare The overtime ban in the engineering industry, called by the unions in support of pay demands for two million...
18 Apr 1979
THE GUARDIAN Craftsmen's strike is not hampering work, BL claims By John Ardill, Labour Staff A claim that the unofficial strike by...
18 Apr 1980
By Donald Macintyre Labour Reporter The Transport and General Workers' Union is recommending its 18000 striking BL members to return...
18 Apr 1984
BL Back In The Black Executive Editor Kenneth Fleet There are, thank goodness, no great horrors or surprises in the 1983 results...
18 Apr 1990
NEW YORK TIMES By PAUL C. JUDGE, Special to The New York Times The Honda Motor Company has agreed to buy 20 percent of the Rover Group,...
18 Apr 1992
NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY NEWS; Rover Planning Bulgarian Venture Published: Saturday, April 18, 1992 Britain's Rover Group, part of British...
18 Apr 1992
DAILY EXPRESS BULGARIA TO BUILD MAESTRO By Tom McGhie ROVER is planning a partnership with Bulgaria to build the Maestro Clubman as...
18 Apr 1999
DAVID BRIERLEY THE NEW Jaguar S-Type has been launched successfully, putting the British luxury car-maker firmly on track to compete...
18 Apr 2000
BY ANTONY HOPKER Transport firms in Coventry have been challenged to work with the city council to build a new bus station in the...
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