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20 May 1960
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MAY 19 The 2,500 night shift workers at the Cowley factory of the Pressed Steel Company here are to...
20 May 1969
DAILY EXPRESS Picket lines were abandoned at five factories yesterday - when 8,500 car workers gave an unofficial strike full support....
20 May 1971
British Leyland car production was severely reduced yesterday by strikes in its Triumph and Austin Morris subsidiaries. Some 3,300...
20 May 1972
Three thousand British Leyland workers were idle at two of the group's plants in Birmingham last night with production severely interrupted...
20 May 1973
THE OBSERVER BRITISH LEYLAND'S RACE TO CATCH UP MICHAEL BRAHAM looks at a group that turns out six cars where some make sixty. ...
20 May 1980
By Clifford Webb A further short decline in the already depressed American car market combined with the falling dollar has forced...
20 May 1985
CAR – June 1985 Interview – Harold Musgrove, Chairman And Chief Executive, Austin Rover Group Ltd, story by Gavin Green Harold Musgrove...
20 May 1998
OXFORD MAIL Just the job THOUSANDS of new jobs will be created in Oxfordshire with the launch of Rover's new Cowley-built executive...
19 May 1960
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, MAY 18 The reprimand of a new employee because of his standard of work led to stoppages by his workmates...
19 May 1961
BMC MEMO From : Jack Daniels To : Alec issigonis Subject : ADO50 We have, as requested, squirted water through a hose at the...
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