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Thu, 01 May 1969
HIGH ROAD Charles Griffin, Director of Engineering at the Austin Morris Division, discusses the Austin Maxi with the Editor. ...
Thu, 01 May 1969
HIGH ROAD BLMC Magazine Charles Griffin , Director of Engineering at the Austin Morris Division , discusses the Austin Maxi with the...
Fri, 02 May 1969
By MICHAEL THOMAS Docks, national newspapers, and sections of the car industry, were worst affected by widespread May Day strikes...
Fri, 02 May 1969
DAILY MIRROR Thousands of workers obeyed the call to strike against the Government's plans for union reform. Most factory workers...
Sat, 03 May 1969
GLASGOW HERALD Expansion of Albion Motors Ltd will soon be concentrated in additional space at the former Harland & Wolff premises...
Fri, 09 May 1969
By GILES SMITH British Leyland, Britain's biggest car maker, yesterday announced plans costing £45m. for major expansion of the Cowley,...
Fri, 09 May 1969
DAILY EXPRESS By David Jack British Leyland is delaying the Continental launching of its new "Maxi" model for six months – to avoid...
Tue, 13 May 1969
DAILY MIRROR By PAUL CONNEW A wildcat strike by by ten men in a row over who empties dustbins was threatening the jobs of thousands...
Wed, 14 May 1969
By CLIFFORD WEBB British Leyland is to introduce night shift working on its Maxi assembly lines to cope with the flood of orders received...
Thu, 15 May 1969
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midlands Industrial Correspondent Ten internal truck drivers meet this afternoon to vote on whether or not to call...
Fri, 16 May 1969
By CLIFFORD WEBB, Midland Industrial Correspondent Internal truck drivers at Pressed Steel Fisher's Coventry car body plant yesterday...
Sat, 17 May 1969
A negotiated pay rise of £2 a week for 5,000 clerks employed in British Leyland factories in the Midlands and Oxford ran into trouble...
Tue, 20 May 1969
DAILY EXPRESS Picket lines were abandoned at five factories yesterday - when 8,500 car workers gave an unofficial strike full support....
Wed, 21 May 1969
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE, Northern Industrial Correspondent An unofficial strike by about 8,500 production workers kept British Leyland's...
Thu, 22 May 1969
By Business News Staff More serious labour troubles hit British Leyland yesterday when a walk out by 3,000 workers stopped all production...
Fri, 23 May 1969
Len Brindle, chairman of the Leyland joint works committee, addressing the meeting of workers at Leyland Motors yesterday. He told...
Wed, 28 May 1969
MIDLANDS INDUSTRY By CLIFFORD WEBB In the midst of the toughest rationalization progrramme the car industry has seen, Sir Donald Stokes,...
Sat, 31 May 1969
DAILY EXPRESS By David Jack A "who does what" dispute by 89 pipe fitters crippled production at five car plants yesterday making 6,000...
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