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Mon, 01 Feb 1960
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, JAN. 31 Two thousand car production workers have been laid off indefinitely by Standard-Triumph at...
Tue, 02 Feb 1960
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 1 Production by three of the " Big Six" British motor manufacturers was today crippled...
Wed, 03 Feb 1960
Home News FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 2 One of the three strikes that have paralysed much of the Midland car industry...
Thu, 04 Feb 1960
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 3 Only one car of the British Motor Corporation range, the Wolseley 6/99 remains in production...
Tue, 09 Feb 1960
SECOND DISPUTE IN WEEK A second strike in a week hit production at the Birmingham car body building factory of Mulliners Ltd, yesterday. ...
Wed, 10 Feb 1960
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT LIVERPOOL, FEB. 9 It was announced at Speke, Liverpool, today that the Standard-Triumph Group are to spend...
Thu, 11 Feb 1960
The strike by members of the National Union of Vehicle Builders at Motor Panels, Ltd., Coventry, which has affected vehicle production...
Sat, 13 Feb 1960
Between 1,800 and 2,000 workers at the Rover car factory at Solihull, near Birmingham, were laid off last night for the second time...
Tue, 16 Feb 1960
GLASGOW HERALD There was still deadlock yesterday in the two week old strike of 39 sheet metal workers in the Coventry branch works...
Mon, 22 Feb 1960
A settlement was announced on Saturday of the three-week-old strike by 39 sheet metal workers at the Rover Motor Company's factory...
Mon, 22 Feb 1960
JAGUAR MEMO Chairman Sir William Lyons to Technical Director William Heynes on the 3.4 litre MK2 saloon the former test drove. "I...
Tue, 23 Feb 1960
Standard Triumph International announced last night that their offer, worth over £500,000. for the Ordinary share capital of Alforder...
Wed, 24 Feb 1960
At Jaguar Cars Ltd., 500 employees had to be sent home after five men in the paint shop had walked out. The management said that negotiations...
Thu, 25 Feb 1960
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 24 More than 3,000 men were laid off at British Motor Corporation factories today as production...
Fri, 26 Feb 1960
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 25 The management at the Birmingham car accessory firm of Hardy Spicer Ltd., where the strike...
Sat, 27 Feb 1960
Two thousand men are on strike at Hardy Spicer over the dismissal of a shop steward, Mr F. Troth, whom the firm accuse of misconduct....
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