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7 Aug 1969
DAILY EXPRESS Standard Triumph of Coventry stockpiled cars on the factory Rugby pitch yesterday as an unofficial strike by 50 delivery...
7 Aug 1970
Disruption at British Leyland's Longbridge plant continues. The company settled one strike yesterday but faced worsening problems as...
7 Aug 1973
By Clifford Webb British Leyland are stepping up exports of Morris Marinas to the United States to take advantage of a marked swing...
7 Aug 1973
DAILY EXPRESS BACK TO WORK Work was back to normal at the Triumph factory in Coventry and on the Land-Rover line at Rover's factory...
7 Aug 1975
BY Clifford Webb A delegate meeting of more than 400 British Levland shop stewards and national union officials yesterday approved...
6 Aug 1959
FROM OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT When the annual holidays at Morris Motors' plant at Cowley, Oxford, end on Monday, the strike of 3,000...
6 Aug 1970
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE Labour troubles in the car industry showed no signs of easing yesterday. For the second successive day there...
6 Aug 1973
By R. W. Shakespeare Car and engineering plants in the Midlands face another week of disruption caused by labour disputes, with increasing...
6 Aug 1973
In a deal which British Leyland says is worth "a little over £4m", the group has gained control of a Spanish car firm. The Spanish...
6 Aug 1974
By Clifford Webb Ford is now outselling British Leyland in the United Kingdom for the first time since the British group was formed...
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