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18 Jul 1959
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, JULY 17 The executive committee of the Transport and General Workers' Union are expected to declare...
18 Jul 1969
DAILY MIRROR A five-man strike which made 2,250 workers idle for a day at Morris Motors. Cowley, Oxford, was over yesterday. Production...
18 Jul 1999
DESIGN NEWS International design teams give birth to high-spirited offspring, each with distinctive traits By Rick DeMeis, Senior...
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,...
19 Jul 1973
Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland, said last night that the country should stop molly-coddling people from cradle to grave and...
19 Jul 1973
DAILY MIRROR By John Husband British Leyland chief Lord Stokes last night made a scathing attack on "financial speculators and wheeler...
19 Jul 1979
DAILY MIRROR Leyland’s Honda Target By Alan Law British Leyland will be producing between 50,000 and 60,000 Japanese Honda cars by...
19 Jul 1988
DAILY EXPRESS By Barry Devney NEARLY 5,000 jobs are to be axed by the Rover Group. Yesterday's announcement of losses angered union...
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....
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