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17 Jan 1959
About 2,800 workers were sent home to-day from the Pressed Steel Company factory at Cowley, Oxford, after a fire had severely damaged...
17 Jan 1961
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, JAN. 16 Trade unions represented in Oxford car factories sent a deputation to the City Council today...
17 Jan 1964
Combined Research Unit At Jaguars FROM OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT New moves are being made in the engineering division of Jaguar Cars...
17 Jan 1964
TIME MAGAZINE Cuba: Hole in the Embargo Ever since 1960, the U.S. has been putting an economic squeeze on Communist Cuba with what...
17 Jan 1968
At the offices of Cooper Brothers in London, BMH and Leyland men sign a document called 'Heads of Agreement and Principles of Management...
17 Jan 1972
By Alan Hamilton Labour Staff Production at the Triumph car body plant in Liverpool is expected to restart today following the decision...
17 Jan 1972
Lord Stokes writes to Sir Alec Issigonis on this day. "As you know I was away when the little ceremony took place to mark your retirement...
17 Jan 1973
The 2,200 workers laid off by Austin-Morris from its car assembly plant at Cowley, Oxford, because of a dispute involving 88 paint...
17 Jan 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare As British Leyland's Austin-Morris car plant at Cowley, Oxford, begins its first vehicle production of the week...
17 Jan 1975
By Clifford Webb British Leyland is introducing short time working for 7000 manual workers at two Jaguar car plants in Coventry. From...
17 Jan 1975
From David Leigh, Cowley, Oxford Sir Don Ryder, notoriously early riser and the man entrusted by the Government with an analysis of...
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