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11 Jul 1962
200 DECIDE TO GO SLOW AT B.M.C. FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD. JULY 10 An unofficial go-slow will start tomorrow among British Motor...
11 Jul 1970
By CLIFFORD WEBB All car production except that of the Maxi stopped at British Leyland's Cowley plant yesterday and 2,200 workers...
11 Jul 1972
The Jaguar XJ12 on sale from today. By Julian Mounter Motoring Correspondent The long-awaited V12 version of the XJ6 Jaguar is announced...
11 Jul 1975
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland components workers, whose month-old strike has cost more than £18.5m worth of lost car production...
11 Jul 2002
Rover's Longbridge plant: Edging towards profitability? Car maker MG Rover has said it will not break-even this year after all....
10 Jul 1969
The DAILY EXPRESS reports on the demise of Riley. Mr George Turnbull managing director of the Austin -Morris division, said: "We are...
10 Jul 1971
All vehicle production was stopped at the Austin-Morris car plant at Longbridge, Birmingham, yesterday because of a strike by maintenance...
10 Jul 1975
By R. W. Shakepeare British Leyland has run into more labour troubles to add to those which during the past two weeks have caused...
10 Jul 1980
By Clifford Webb Midlands Industrial Correspondent Attempts by a consortium led by Aston-Martin to save the MG sports car marque have...
10 Jul 1986
THE GUARDIAN Austin Rover chairman Harold Musgrove on the new Rover 800. "I cannot over-emphasise just how important this car is,...
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