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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...
8 Jul 1986
THE GUARDIAN BL CHANGES ITS NAME TO ROVER By David Simpson, Business Correspondent BL yesterday officially changed its name to...
8 Jul 2003
The new City Rover will cost about £6,000 MG Rover is unveiling its new small car at its Longbridge factory in Birmingham. The car...
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...
9 Jul 1969
British Leyland will stop making Riley cars from today. "With less than 1 per cent of the home market, they are not viable", the company...
9 Jul 1970
THE GUARDIAN A total shutdown of the car industry was averted yesterday when the 650 strikers at Lucas, Birmingham, voted to accept...
9 Jul 1974
Over 200 of the British motor industry's top engineers have applied to join George Turnbull, the ex-managing director of British Leyland...
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