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28 Aug 1959
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 27 The unofficial strike of 35 workers at the British Motor Corporation's tractor and...
28 Aug 1961
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, AUG. 27 Leviand Motors have asked union leaders in Coventry to attend joint talks to discuss the...
28 Aug 1963
THE GUARDIAN NEW BMC ASSEMBLY LINE By our industrial staff A new , highly mechanised car assembly building, with a capacity of 2,500...
28 Aug 1968
THE GUARDIAN The second main area of trouble , a strike of 130 electricians at the Pressed Steel-Fisher plant at Cowley , began to...
28 Aug 1970
THE GUARDIAN British Leyland expect 1100 and 1300 production to be back to normal today at Cowley and Longbridge, and at the Land-...
28 Aug 1973
THE GUARDIAN JAGUAR NEWS The 150 machinists who walked out from Jaguar Cars in Coventry, on Friday complaining that the public...
28 Aug 1974
With all the American-owned Chrysler Company's car production in Britain at a standstill, yesterday British Leyland had to stop its...
28 Aug 1974
EVENING TIMES Comments by a former BBC economics correspondent that a factory complex owned by British Leyland was a 'skivers paradise'...
28 Aug 1984
Jaguar to recruit 530 more staff By Jonathan Davis, Financial Correspondent Jaguar the former BL subsidiary which was privatized...
27 Aug 1959
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 26 Production of the British Motor Corporation's new small cars, the Austin seven and...
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