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4 Apr 1959
BMC - Mini production starts at Longbridge today. 627 HUE AKA chassis number 102 was the second production Mini . It was later modified...
4 Apr 1960
Standard-Triumph International Ltd. announce that Mr F. B. Dixon has joined the board. Following the reorganization of the group last...
4 Apr 1962
20,000 Likely To Be Idle In B.M.C. Factories From Our Correspondent BIRMINGHAM. APRIL 3 More than 20,000 workers employed by the British...
4 Apr 1970
THE GUARDIAN By Anthony Harris While the motor industry continues to hope for some relief in the Budget, the situation with ten days...
4 Apr 1973
In Lancashire more than 8,500 workers at British Leyland's five bus and lorry plants at Leyland and Chorley began an all-out strike...
4 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare Labour disputes, which have cost British Leyland some £8m. worth in lost car production over the past eight days,...
4 Apr 1975
Shop stewards at British Leyland factories are to fight any attempts to dismiss workers. They fear that rationalization proposals recommended...
4 Apr 1979
DAILY EXPRESS LEYLAND RIDES INTO A ROW By Gordon Ogilvie and David Jack The wooing of Japan by British Leyland's bosses ran into a...
3 Apr 1968
On this day: At a meeting today at BLMC's Berkeley Square HQ, London, between Alec Layborn, Lewis Whyte and Sir Donald Stokes, it...
3 Apr 1970
Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland, yesterday met leaders of 40,000 white-collar workers as part of his plan to improve labour...
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