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30 Apr 1980
By Clifford Webb The remaining opposition to BL management's imposition of its pay and conditions package crumbled yesterday when...
30 Apr 1996
THE INDEPENDENT Michael Harrison John Towers shocked the motor industry yesterday by resigning as chief executive of the Rover car...
29 Apr 1961
3,000 GO BACK The strike of 46 body loaders and 3,000 other workers supporting them, which began on Thursday night at the British Motor...
29 Apr 1970
By CLIFFORD WEBB Production problems worsened at British Leyland plants yesterday with a further 1,700 men laid off because of the...
29 Apr 1971
While Mr. Harry Webster, the designer, was drawing the outlines for the new Morris Marina, he was being prompted by a brash and brilliant...
29 Apr 1971
THE GUARDIAN Seventy-five unofficial strikers at the Triumph car plant at Liverpool , who stopped work last week and made a total...
29 Apr 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland is recruiting 900 workers at Jaguar, Coventry, to increase by one...
29 Apr 1974
By Peter Waymark Motoring Correspondent British Leyland is dropping three models in its Austin Allegro small saloon range, less than...
29 Apr 1985
BL resisting ministers on £250m investment By Clifford Webb. Motoring Correspondent BL is resisting government pressure to reduce...
29 Apr 1987
THE GLASGOW HERALD Austin Rover is again linking with Honda of Japan, this time to produce a new range of family size cars. Honda...
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