On this day
10 Aug 1959
From Our Correspondent OXFORD, AUG. 9 Attitudes hardened today towards the strike at Morris Motors, Cowley, over the dismissal of...
10 Aug 1970
DAILY MIRROR At least a million families in Britain depend on the giant British Leyland Motor Corporation. Nearly 200,000 collect...
10 Aug 1972
Representatives of 2,000 men, on strike for seven weeks at the Jaguar factory in Coventry, have asked to meet the company today. This...
10 Aug 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent A strike over the sacking of two men alleged to have been fighting on the shop...
10 Aug 1984
Call for Cowley unions to end unofficial strikes By Clifford Webb Senior officials from the two biggest unions have been called...
9 Aug 1963
From TIME magazine Friday, Aug. 09, 1963 When Britain's Leyland Motor Corp. wanted to test one of its trucks, it sent its chief engineer...
9 Aug 1969
DAILY EXPRESS SCREWY... About 500 men are idle, and jobs of thousands more are in jeopardy at, the Standard-Triumph plant at...
9 Aug 1973
DAILY MIRROR Seven thousand Jaguar car workers were offered a revolutionary new pay deal yesterday. First stage of the "secure earnings...
9 Aug 1975
By R. W. Shakespeare An eight-week old strike which has made 18.000 British Leyland workers idle and cost more than £25m worth of...
9 Aug 1980
THE GUARDIAN CAR PARKING DISPUTE STARTS STRIKE AT BL By Paul Johnson Night shift workers at the BL plant at Solihull, West Midlands,...
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