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Wed, 01 Oct 1969
DAILY EXPRESS Standard-Triumph hit by a strike of 1,150 Liverpool car body workers over four weeks ago, still had 7,000 workers laid...
Wed, 01 Oct 1969
CAR magazine Motor Show Special 1969 The head of British Leyland talks exclusively to Doug Blain, Leonard Setright and Ronald Barker...
Sat, 04 Oct 1969
DAILY MIRROR Uproar broke out yesterday among 6000 car workers who had been asked to vote for a strike. The vote, by Morris Motors...
Tue, 07 Oct 1969
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE There was still more trouble in Britain's strike bound car industry yesterday. All vehicle assembly at the big...
Wed, 08 Oct 1969
DAILY EXPRESS The second strike in two days yesterday again halted car production at the Morris Motors assembly factory at Cowley,...
Fri, 10 Oct 1969
Minis with a little more By GEOFFREY CHARLES, Motoring Correspondent For the second time in two years British Leyland's Minis receive...
Fri, 10 Oct 1969
THE GUARDIAN The 195,000 people who work for British Leyland were warned yesterday by Sir Donald Stokes, chief executive of the group,...
Thu, 23 Oct 1969
By R. W. SHAKESPEARE. The 1,150 engineering workers who are in the ninth week of their unofficial strike from the Standard Triumph...
Thu, 23 Oct 1969
At British Leyland's Longbridge car plant the 120 engine assembly workers who have been on strike since October 1st over a piecework...
Fri, 24 Oct 1969
News of extensive short time working at the Austin-Morris plants at Cowley, Oxford, came yesterday in a joint statement by management...
Mon, 27 Oct 1969
DAILY MIRROR THERE'S a battle brewing in the spare parts business — one of the most profitable sides of the motor trade. Britain's...
Thu, 30 Oct 1969
DAILY MIRROR By Alan Law Productivity Minister Barbara Castle last night ordered a court of inquiry into the ten-week-old Standard...
Fri, 31 Oct 1969
DAILY MIRROR By PAUL CONNEW and ALAN LAW A dollar earning car plant was brought to a standstill yesterday. . . by a smell. Fifteen...
 

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