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18 Nov 1959
Car production by the British Motor Corporation was again dislocated by an unofficial strike yesterday. More than 100 press shop workers...
18 Nov 1993
THE GUARDIAN, By Simon Beavis British Aerospace has lost the fight to hold on to one of its key directors with confirmation that George...
17 Nov 1970
BY R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland has made a significant breakthrough in its plans to end the piecework system at its car manufacturing...
17 Nov 1972
By Roy Farndon Mr John Simon, joint managing director of Dunlop Holdings, is joining British Leyland International on December 1 as...
17 Nov 1979
More BL men found asleep on night shift From Our Correspondent Oxford Three days after 13 workers were dismissed after being found...
17 Nov 1988
THE GUARDIAN Rover chairman Graham Day is giving up his position as chief executive and has appointed George Simpson, chief executive...
19 Nov 1959
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 18 Officials of the Transport and General Workers' Union moved quickly today to avert a serious...
19 Nov 1960
The Rover Motor Company announced today that about 1,000 men at their Solihull assembly plant will begin a three-day week on Monday....
19 Nov 1971
The strike of engine assemblers at British Leyland, Longbridge, was entering its eighth week and had cost the company £15m worth of...
19 Nov 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare Within hours of recalling 5,000 workers laid-off from the British Leyland Triumph car plant in Coventry Yesterday...
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