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17 May 1963
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD. MAY 16 A strike by 1,000 workers at the radiators branch of Morris Motors at Oxford is threatening...
17 May 1969
A negotiated pay rise of £2 a week for 5,000 clerks employed in British Leyland factories in the Midlands and Oxford ran into trouble...
17 May 1970
THE OBSERVER With rumours rife and the shares flat on their backs, ROGER EGLIN looks at Britain's troubled car giant. No flags flew...
17 May 1971
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland is making hurried changes in the model mix of the production line...
17 May 1973
By Peter Waymark, Motoring Correspondent A new compact family saloon which could be crucial to the fortunes of British Leyland, Britain's...
17 May 1973
By Clifford Webb Two years ago, when British Leyland introduced the Morris Marina, there were a lot of disappointed motorists around....
17 May 1973
By Peter Waymark British Leyland's Austin Allegro, which is announced today, is probably the most important new model to appear since...
16 May 1959
THE GUARDIAN More than five hundred men at the British Motor Corporation's Austin factory at Longbridge, Birmingham, were sent home...
16 May 1961
800 CAR WORKERS ON TOKEN STRIKE FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MAY 25 Production at Morris Motors radiators branch in north Oxford...
16 May 1969
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Internal truck drivers at Pressed Steel Fisher's Coventry car body plant yesterday...
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