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3 Dec 1968
By CLIFFORD WEBB A fresh outbreak of strikes yesterday added to the miseries of the motor industry which already has 5000 men laid...
3 Dec 1970
By R. W. Shakespeare The British Leyland management has made its first move in a bid to end the traditional piece-work system among...
3 Dec 1975
By R. W. Shakespeare More than 6,500 British Leyland workers were laid off yesterday, production of three different car ranges was...
3 Dec 1979
BL management From Mr Geoffrey Robinson. MP for Coventry North West (Labour) Sir, In view of certain innuendoes I feel a reply is...
3 Dec 1986
NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY NEWS; Britain in Talks To Sell Off Rover REUTERS Published: December 3, 1986 The British Government said...
3 Dec 1998
THE INDEPENDENT Outlook: New master, but Rover's still a dog ROVER'S LATEST BOSS vacated the driving seat yesterday sprinkling Latin...
3 Dec 1998
The Economist BMW's British bruises IN 1984 it took BMW's German workers six weeks of a bitter strike to win a 35-hour working week....
2 Dec 1959
THE GUARDIAN The two hundred and fifty thousandth Land Rover has been produced at the Solihull (Warwickshire) factory of the Rover...
2 Dec 1960
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 1 Fifteen hundred British Motor Corporation employees are to be transferred from a three...
2 Dec 1968
THE GUARDIAN In addition to the 5,000 workers being laid off today by Ford at Dagenham because of the shortage of disc brake systems,...
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