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17 Jun 1959
After three hours of informal discussion no basis for agreement was reached today on a trade union request to the Standard Motor Company...
17 Jun 1971
With orders for the new Morris Marina estimated to have exceeded 60,000, while only between 12,000 and 14,000 have been made, British...
17 Jun 1972
By Philip Dver British Leyland Motor Corporation is to make an immediate repayment to the Government of £20m of the outstanding £35m...
17 Jun 1975
By R. W. Shakespeare About 10,000 workers in nine of British Leyland's Rover car plants,seven in the Midlands and two in Cardiff,...
17 Jun 1999
THE INDEPENDENT News Analysis: Today the UK group revels in the hype of a new launch, but this is just the first stage of a long...
16 Jun 1959
The Standard Motor Company, of Coventry, announced tonight that they are to dismiss the entire body shop force working on their new...
16 Jun 1969
DAILY MIRROR By Sidney Wiliams and James Beecroft The writing was already scrawled in black paint on the walls round Leyland—"Parity...
16 Jun 1972
From A Goodrick-Clarke Seneffe, Belgium, June 15 It will be 1975-76 at the earliest before British Leyland's real profit potential...
16 Jun 1972
LEYLAND MAY DROP THE 'BRITISH' The name "British" may be dropped from British Leyland plants abroad because of its " bad image." The...
16 Jun 1973
DAILY MIRROR By Bryn Jones British Leyland accused shop stewards last night of “deliberately sabotaging' a meeting which could have...
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