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Thu, 17 Aug 1961
STANDARD TRIUMPH - On this day at Standard Triumph, Sir Henry Spurrier and Stanley Markland use Harry Webster's office to fire most...
Tue, 22 Aug 1961
From Our City Editor Mr A. S. Dick, managing director of Standard Triumph International since 1954, is to resign from the company,...
Wed, 23 Aug 1961
Motor manufacturers whose lives have been bound up with the industry since its beginning become something more than leaders of a family...
Wed, 23 Aug 1961
THE GUARDIAN By our own Reporter Workers at the Standard-Triumph factories at Coventry, where wage rates are among the highest in...
Mon, 28 Aug 1961
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, AUG. 27 Leviand Motors have asked union leaders in Coventry to attend joint talks to discuss the...
Tue, 29 Aug 1961
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, AUG. 28 A joint meeting between Mr. Stanley Markland, the new managing director of Standard-Triumph...
Tue, 29 Aug 1961
BMC On this day a BMC note is written; 'Order Of Priority Of Work Which Farina Are Doing For BMC.' Subheading; 'ADO15 Work To...
Wed, 30 Aug 1961
Standard-Triumph International are to make drastic cuts in staff and in "non-productive expenditure." Sir Henry Spurrier, chairman...
Wed, 30 Aug 1961
NEWS FROM INDUSTRY Production of vehicles by the British Motor Corporation declined to 601,000 in the year ended July 31 from 669,000...
Thu, 31 Aug 1961
FOUR-DAY WEEK FOR 700 WORKERS From Monday 700 workers at the factory of Alford and Alder at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, will be...