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Thu, 04 Sep 1969
By CLIFFORD WEBB. Midland Industrial Correspondent There were hopes last night that strike meetings taking place in Liverpool and...
Fri, 05 Sep 1969
British Leyland's strike problems at first eased yesterday but then became more serious. In the morning, 130 storemen at the car body...
Sat, 06 Sep 1969
DAILY EXPRESS The 11-day-old unofficial strike of car body workers at Standard-Triumph's Liverpool plant caused another 2,500 production...
Sat, 13 Sep 1969
DAILY MIRROR Productivity Minister Barbara Castle stepped in last night over a pay strike at Standard Triumph, Liverpool, which has...
Mon, 15 Sep 1969
A second cutback in Austin Maxi production at Oxford within a month will begin when the Morris Motors assembly plant re-opens on September...
Tue, 16 Sep 1969
By GILES SMITH The share of the British car market won by British Leyland's new and much publicized Maxi , production of which will...
Thu, 18 Sep 1969
DAILY MIRROR By Paul Connew Twenty six girl switchboard operators staged a lightning strike yesterday-and threw a giant car factory...
Tue, 23 Sep 1969
By GILES SMITH British Leyland, Britain's biggest car group, will spend a total of £70m. in a major expansion of its Cowley, Oxford,...
Thu, 25 Sep 1969
DAILY MIRROR By PATRICK MENNEM, Motoring Correspondent British Leyland boss Lord Stokes attacked industrial unrest within his company...
Fri, 26 Sep 1969
DAILY MIRROR The Rover motor company is to lay off 1,300 workers at its main factory today. It will also halt production of its 2000...