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BMC/Leyland talks

15 January 1968

At around 1 am in Sir Donald Stokes St James, London flat, Joseph Edwards (BMH) agrees to the BMH-Leyland merger.

At 10 am there is another BMH-Leyland meeting held in the offices of the Industrial Re-organisation Committee.

Among those present are Sir George Harriman, Joseph Edwards and Ronald Lucas from BMH and Lewis Whyte from Leyland.

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