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16 Jul 1961
BMC On this day BMC hold a pre-launch dinner for the ADO50 Mini Cooper at the Kensington Palace Hotel. Alec Issigonis makes a speech....
16 Jul 1962
The board of Leyland Motors Limited has agreed to the resignation of Mr J. L. Blackwood Murray as a director of that company. His...
16 Jul 1969
DAILY MIRROR By Richard Sear No man looks less designed to start off the cult of the miniature. Stooping just under six feet in height,...
16 Jul 1970
DAILY MIRROR British Leyland is the largest vehicle manufacturer in this country. In six months it has lost between £8,000,000 and...
16 Jul 1971
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland last night began recalling 2.800 men laid off at its Austin-Morris...
16 Jul 1988
AP British Aerospace P.L.C. will go ahead with its takeover of Rover Group P.L.C. despite conditions the European Community's Executive...
15 Jul 1973
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland is seeking planning permission to build an engine factory costing...
15 Jul 1975
DAILY MIRROR By Robert Head City financier Jim Slater told British Leyland shareholders yesterday why their firm is broke. Waving...
17 Jul 1959
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, JULY 16 Shop stewards of the Transport and General Workers' Union at Morris Motors, Ltd., Cowley, tonight...
17 Jul 1970
THE GUARDIAN The windscreen shortage has already brought the Jaguar plant in Coventry to a standstill, resulting in 1,700 lay-offs,...
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