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7 Nov 1959
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 6 Normal working was resumed today at the Edgbaston branch factory of the Rover Company...
7 Nov 1960
Business Changes Mr E. G. Commander has retired from the board of Rover due to ill-health. It is proposed that Mr L. G. T. Farmer...
7 Nov 1963
B.M.C. Double Trading Gains FROM OUR CITY EDITOR Boom conditions in the motor industry are reflected in the accounts of Britain's...
7 Nov 1969
A fierce fire at the £10m. Rover car factory in Solihull, Warwickshire, last night, was tackled by more than 50 firemen in the trim...
7 Nov 1970
By Giles Smith Sixty-five thousand workers in British Leyland's Austin-Morris and Manufacturing group, Britain's largest car producing...
7 Nov 1972
Clifford Webb looks at the background to the new pay deal for British Leyland's Longbridge workers. Unlike some motor industry leaders...
7 Nov 1975
DAILY EXPRESS By Robin Stafford Rome Thursday A stick of dynamite was hurled into the Rome showroom of the Leyland-Innocenti car...
6 Nov 1959
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 5 The unofficial sit-down strike at the Rover company's Edgbaston factory, where a shop...
6 Nov 1963
Jaguar Chairman Sir William Lyons writes to Sir Henry Spurrier, former Chairman of the Leyland group. "I was so pleased to see that...
6 Nov 1971
By Clifford Webb On the eve of a world tour of British Leyland plants and markets Lord Stokes, chairman, yesterday warned his 180,000...
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