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27 May 1959
STRIKERS BACK Strikers at the Rover car company's factory at Solihull, Birmingham; who walked out on Monday over a pay dispute were...
27 May 1960
From Our City Editor Jaguar Cars, Ltd., has arranged to buy for cash the Daimler Company from the Birmingham Small Arms group. The...
27 May 1963
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MAY 26 An unofficial strike by 206 skilled men at the Pressed Steel Company, Oxford, which has caused...
27 May 1963
DECISION TODAY AT STANDARD'S FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, MAY 26 A meeting of 260 maintenance men and internal transport drivers...
27 May 1971
The 250,000th MGB is produced at Abingdon in the prescence of Austin Morris boss the George Turnbull. The car, a blaze left hand drive...
27 May 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Workers at a second Jaguar car plant in Coventry yesterday gave the management seven...
27 May 1973
Car production at the British Leyland Austin-Morris plant at Cowley, Oxford, was halted again yesterday because of the continuing dispute...
27 May 1973
THE OBSERVER ALLEGRO KNOCKERS By Gordon Wilkins While the Austin Allegro was well received in Britain, some Continental writers...
27 May 1999
Around 280 workers at Rover’s Gaydon plant are to take voluntary redundancy as the job losses announced at the beginning of the year...
27 May 1999
THE GUARDIAN On the move: Rover's new executive car provides Oxford jobs for Longbridge workers Rover is creating an additional...
27 May 1999
THE INDEPENDENT Michael Harrison ROVER IS to create an extra 800 jobs at its Cowley plant in Oxford to cope with production of its...
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