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9 Aug 1963
From TIME magazine Friday, Aug. 09, 1963 When Britain's Leyland Motor Corp. wanted to test one of its trucks, it sent its chief engineer...
9 Aug 1969
DAILY EXPRESS SCREWY... About 500 men are idle, and jobs of thousands more are in jeopardy at, the Standard-Triumph plant at...
9 Aug 1973
DAILY MIRROR Seven thousand Jaguar car workers were offered a revolutionary new pay deal yesterday. First stage of the "secure earnings...
9 Aug 1975
By R. W. Shakespeare An eight-week old strike which has made 18.000 British Leyland workers idle and cost more than £25m worth of...
9 Aug 1980
THE GUARDIAN CAR PARKING DISPUTE STARTS STRIKE AT BL By Paul Johnson Night shift workers at the BL plant at Solihull, West Midlands,...
9 Aug 1992
THE INDEPENDENT Rover on the road into Europe in a second-hand sale by BAe: It is no longer a case of whether Britain's last car giant...
8 Aug 1963
DAILY EXPRESS By BASIL CARDEW Last night a neatly dressed man of 55, built like an athlete, was handed a slip of paper in his office...
8 Aug 1968
By MAURICE CORINA The British Leyland Motor Corporation is to spend at least £200m. over the next four years on modernizing its manufacturing...
8 Aug 1968
By James Beecroft One of Britain’s champion export firms yesterday announced a gigantic programme of investment. Sir Donald Stokes,...
8 Aug 1969
BY OUR INDUSTRIAL STAFF Leaders of three unions are to visit British Leyland's Standard-Triumph plant at Coventry in an effort to...
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