On this day
30 Jan 1959
An unchanged Ordinary dividend of 12-5 per cent. is being paid by Leyland Motors Group trading profits for the year ended September...
30 Jan 1960
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 29 With more than 24,000 British Motor Corporation workers idle because of the strike...
30 Jan 1968
THE GUARDIAN Production of the Rover 2000 at Solihull resumed yesterday after being halted for nearly a week by two strikes at a firm...
30 Jan 1970
DAILY EXPRESS A Strike hit a component factory in Reading, Berkshire, bringing trouble to Rovers at Solihull, Warwickshire and Jaguar's...
30 Jan 1972
THE GUARDIAN STRIKES A new dispute stopped production of 1100 and 1300 cars at the British Leyland assembly works at Longbridge...
30 Jan 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare After the Government's announcement of changes in the three-day working week arrangements, British Leyland has...
30 Jan 1979
THE GUARDIAN THE WINTER OF DISCONTENT The 7,500 workers laid off from the Cowley car factories go back to work tomorrow. The return---more...
30 Jan 1987
DAILY EXPRESS By PAUL WILENIUS Industrial Reporter MORE THAN 1,000 white collar jobs at the Austin Rover car giant will be axed as...
30 Jan 2001
MG Rover has unveiled four new sportier models as its new owners begin the long process of getting the loss making car maker back on...
29 Jan 1960
The strike by 132' workers at British Light Steel Pressings, Acton, which had caused 4,600 people in the Rootes factory at Coventry...
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