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9 Jun 1961
DAILY MIRROR Night shift working started again yesterday at Standard Triumph car factories in Coventry – the first time since the...
9 Jun 1971
More than 6,100 car workers at Cowley are now idle because of a strike by 147 skilled workers at the Austin-Morris car assembly plant...
9 Jun 1973
In the most damaging stoppage 80 plant attendants at Austin Morris, Cowley, yesterday unanimously rejected a company pay offer and...
9 Jun 1998
New Mini to be sold in US for first time Michael Harrison THE MINI is set to go on sale in America for the first time when it appears...
8 Jun 1962
THE GUARDIAN NEW STOPPAGE AT JAGUAR'S 750 sent home Car assembly was stopped at Jaguar Cars, Coventry, yesterday for the fifth time...
8 Jun 1972
By A Goodrick-Clarke British Leyland aims more or less to match the 1970-71 profit of £32rm in the current year. But there has been...
8 Jun 1973
By Roger Vielvoye British Leyland Motor Corporation has completed the negotiations for a complex reorganization of its manufacturing...
8 Jun 1979
THE GUARDIAN BL COMPANIES TO GET BIGGER LABOUR ROLE By Peter Hildrew, northern labour correspondent BL Cars executive confirmed yesterday...
8 Jun 1987
DAILY EXPRESS Jaguar car makers are to hire 800 more workers on top of the 1,000 new jobs created this year to handle record production....
10 Jun 1959
Two British Motor Corporation factories here were affected today by unofficial disputes and over 3,500 men were idle. A fresh strike...
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