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17 Sep 1960
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, SEPT. 16 Five hundred Morris Minor assembly workers at Morris Motors, Oxford, were sent home at midday...
17 Sep 1963
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, SEPT. 16 Car delivery drivers in Oxford went on strike today in support of a claim for a 42-hour five-day...
17 Sep 1968
DAILY MIRROR Nearly 3,000 Rover workers at two Birmingham factories were made idle yesterday following an unofficial strike by fifty-four...
17 Sep 1971
THE GUARDIAN Nine Lucas factories in Birmingham were back in production yesterday after a strike lasting almost a month. Four thousand...
17 Sep 1973
Another dispute in a components firm, Adwest, near Reading, goes on, and the effects of this are likely to grow over the coming week....
17 Sep 1973
Elsewhere in the motor industry, production of saloon and sports cars is still stopped at British Leyland's Jaguar plant in Coventry,with...
17 Sep 1985
THE GUARDIAN Austin Rover Managing Director Harold Musgrove discusses Project XX at the Frankfurt Motor Show. "This car will challenge...
17 Sep 2003
Tata Motors, the Indian firm that is building MG Rover's next car for the UK market, has been showing off the City Rover, which is...
16 Sep 1960
MINI ESTATE LAUNCHED B.M.C. Extend Scope Of The 850 Model FROM OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT The British Motor Corporation are extending...
16 Sep 1969
By GILES SMITH The share of the British car market won by British Leyland's new and much publicized Maxi , production of which will...
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