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24 Oct 1969
News of extensive short time working at the Austin-Morris plants at Cowley, Oxford, came yesterday in a joint statement by management...
24 Oct 1975
by BOB WRIGHT THE British motor car industry is up against tremendous competition. There are three international companies in the...
24 Oct 1979
DAILY MIRROR CHATTING UP THE BOYS AT THE BENCHES By Geoffrey Goodman By the end of this week virtually all British Leyland's 165,000...
24 Oct 1980
BL selling site as factory units By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent BL Cars, which has more than £30m worth of closed...
24 Oct 1988
THE GUARDIAN By Paul Hoyland A meeting of Land Rover's 6,000 manual workers ended in confusion yesterday when union leaders claimed...
24 Oct 1998
THE INDEPENDENT It is high time for Rover and Jaguar to show they can design for the future Gavin Green ROVER DIDN'T so much shoot...
23 Oct 1961
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, Oct. 22 Trade union assurances of co-operation for Jaguar Cars Ltd., of Coventry, in fulfilling the...
23 Oct 1962
THE GUARDIAN Back to normal Normal production was resumed at Burman and Sons, a car components factory at King's Norton , Birmingham,...
23 Oct 1969
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE. The 1,150 engineering workers who are in the ninth week of their unofficial strike from the Standard Triumph...
23 Oct 1969
At British Leyland's Longbridge car plant the 120 engine assembly workers who have been on strike since October 1st over a piecework...
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