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15 Jun 1984
CAR WORKERS FIND THE PRICE OF EFFICIENCY TOO HIGH By Peter Hetherington In the shadow of the idle British Leyland car plant at Longbridge,...
15 Jun 1984
Austin strike collapses Austin Rover executives were working late last night to prepare for the resumption of full production at...
15 Jun 1984
Jaguar Spinoff Details Given B L P.L.C., the state-owned automobile manufacturer, today released the first details of the long-expected...
16 Jun 1959
The Standard Motor Company, of Coventry, announced tonight that they are to dismiss the entire body shop force working on their new...
16 Jun 1969
DAILY MIRROR By Sidney Wiliams and James Beecroft The writing was already scrawled in black paint on the walls round Leyland—"Parity...
16 Jun 1972
From A Goodrick-Clarke Seneffe, Belgium, June 15 It will be 1975-76 at the earliest before British Leyland's real profit potential...
16 Jun 1972
LEYLAND MAY DROP THE 'BRITISH' The name "British" may be dropped from British Leyland plants abroad because of its " bad image." The...
16 Jun 1973
DAILY MIRROR By Bryn Jones British Leyland accused shop stewards last night of “deliberately sabotaging' a meeting which could have...
16 Jun 1979
Michael Edwardes accepts a knighthood from the new Conservative government, having twice declined the honour from the previous Labour...
13 Jun 1959
Messrs T. A. E. Layborn and S. J. Wheeler have joined the board of the British Motor Corporation. Mr Layborn, deputy chairman of C...
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