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Thu, 01 Oct 1970
Car production at British Leyland's Austin-Morris plant in Longbridge. Birmingham, was stopped yesterday when 165 internal drivers...
Fri, 02 Oct 1970
Production was resumed at the British Leyland Austin-Morris plant at Longbridge yesterday when 165 internal drivers went back to work...
Tue, 06 Oct 1970
By R. W. Shakespeare Production of Jaguar XJ6 and Daimler Sovereign cars was halted at British Leyland's Coventry plant yesterday...
Wed, 07 Oct 1970
By David Jack Yet another pay strike crippled British Leyland yesterday. By last night - less than 24 hours after the Government's...
Thu, 08 Oct 1970
By R. W. Shakespeare Top level management/union talks will be held in York today to try to resolve the month old strike which has...
Mon, 12 Oct 1970
By Julian Mounter Motoring Correspondent A completely revised and greatly improved Austin Maxi is announced by British Leyland today....
Tue, 13 Oct 1970
THE GUARDIAN At Cowley, a recommendation from local union officials for a resumption of work after a six week strike by 1,150 assembly...
Wed, 14 Oct 1970
DAILY MIRROR By Paul Connew Workers at a giant car factory are being "fined" by shop stewards for working too hard. The wage slips...
Thu, 15 Oct 1970
By R. W. Shakespeare Internal truck drivers at British Leyland's Rover engines plant, at Acocks Green, Birmingham. have decided to...
Fri, 16 Oct 1970
Production of strike-hit Rover 2000 and 3500 saloons at Solihull , Warwicks, will be resumed on Monday, and 1,400 laid-off workers...
Tue, 20 Oct 1970
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland car production is threatened again by an unofficial strike-of engine assembly workers at the...
Wed, 21 Oct 1970
British Leyland's labour troubles eased yesterday with the ending of three strikes that have been hitting production at the company's...
Mon, 26 Oct 1970
By R. W. Shakespeare Plans to reform labour relations in the British Leyland Motor Corporation met with a rebuff yesterday when 200...
Fri, 30 Oct 1970
By Clifford Webb, Midland Industrial Correspondent The three major motor unions have boycotted talks with British Leyland on a new...
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