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BMC/Leyland merger
3 April 1968
On this day:
At a meeting today at BLMC's Berkeley Square HQ, London, between Alec Layborn, Lewis Whyte and Sir Donald Stokes, it was decided that unless Joseph Edwards agreed to work with Stokes, he would be asked to resign.
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