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7 Jul 1987
DAILY EXPRESS The top 10 selling cars for the first six months of 1987: 1 Ford Escort (88,962), 2 Ford Fiesta (77,400), 3 Ford Sierra...
6 Jul 1961
ROVER CAR MEN STRIKE Fifty-one internal transport workers at the Rover company's car factory at Solihull, near Birmingham. went on...
6 Jul 1963
DAILY EXPRESS STOP-THE-STRIKE SHOP STEWARDS Shop stewards aim to stamp out strikes at the British Motor Corporation's Morris Motors...
6 Jul 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Jaguar dealers are running out of spare parts as a result of unusually militant...
6 Jul 1974
By Edward Townsend British Leyland yesterday took the first step in its plan to trim down its 175,000-strong labour force with the...
6 Jul 1986
TORONTO STAR Graham Day, coming to British Leyland after many successes, was announced by a major newspaper as a 'nasty surprise'...
8 Jul 1969
THE GUARDIAN British Leyland Motor Corporation has acquired a 50 per cent holding in Nueva Montana Quijano (NMQ), a heavy industrial...
8 Jul 1970
THE GUARDIAN Jaguar has abandoned production at Coventry, laying off 1,500 workers, and 1,000 Rover workers have been sent home from...
8 Jul 1971
Production at a second Coventry car plant is now being interrupted by the toolt-room workers refusal to do overtime. Triumph yesterday...
8 Jul 1972
Shop stewards at British Leyland Motor Corporation's Longbridge car plant claimed last night that 10,000 production workers at the...
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