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Sat, 01 Jan 1972
The new year has started badly for Jaguar Cars at Coventry which this coming week could lose about 750 cars, worth £2.3m, because of...
Tue, 04 Jan 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Production of British Leyland's best-selling Austin-Morris 1100/ 1300s and Minis...
Wed, 05 Jan 1972
At the Austin-Morris plant at Longbridge, production of Minis was again at a standstill yesterday, with 2,000 car assembly workers...
Wed, 05 Jan 1972
THE GUARDIAN BLMC SEEKS CHANGES IN PAY By Geoffrey Whiteley British Leyland is to continue negotiations with shop stewards at its...
Thu, 06 Jan 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent More than 6,000 British Leyland car workers were laid off last night as a further...
Fri, 07 Jan 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent Labour relations problems at British Leyland's Midland car plants fluctuated yesterday...
Sat, 08 Jan 1972
At British Leyland's truck and tractor plant at Bathgate, West Lothian, the 3,500 shop floor employees carried out their threat to...
Tue, 11 Jan 1972
DAILY EXPRESS MINI TOPS RECORD YEAR By David Benson The mighty Mini led the British Leyland firm to a record-making year in 1971,...
Tue, 11 Jan 1972
THE GUARDIAN DISPUTES Three thousand workers , are on strike at another Scottish vehicle works, the British Leyland factory at...
Wed, 12 Jan 1972
Triumph Motors accused employees at their Liverpool plant last night of breaking an agreement to move from job to job to enable the...
Wed, 12 Jan 1972
From Clifford Webb, Midlands Industrial Correspondent A number of British Leyland's biggest Austin-Morris distributors have had their...
Thu, 13 Jan 1972
Production at British Leyland's Austin Morris plant at Longbridge, the largest in Britain, could be halted within the next 48 hours...
Fri, 14 Jan 1972
The ending of the two week-old strike of 100 engine assembly men at the Jaguar works in Coventry means that in all 2,600 men will be...
Sat, 15 Jan 1972
By Our Midland Industrial Correspondent Two of the three British Leyland Mini assembly lines and the 1800 assembly line at Austin-Morris,...
Sat, 15 Jan 1972
By Anthony Rowley British Leyland's profits recovered to £32.4m in 1970-71 from £0.9m the previous year, Lord Stokes, the chairman...
Mon, 17 Jan 1972
By Alan Hamilton Labour Staff Production at the Triumph car body plant in Liverpool is expected to restart today following the decision...
Mon, 17 Jan 1972
Lord Stokes writes to Sir Alec Issigonis on this day. "As you know I was away when the little ceremony took place to mark your retirement...
Tue, 18 Jan 1972
THE GUARDIAN CAR FACTORY STRIKE LAYS OFF 3,200 Three assembly lines were stopped at the Austin-Morris factory at Longbridge, Birmingham,...
Fri, 21 Jan 1972
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent The 134 women machinists at British Leyland's Longbridge, Birmingham, car plant,...
Mon, 24 Jan 1972
British Leyland has laid off nearly 4,000 workers at its Austin-Morris plant at Longbridge, Birmingham, and the car body works at Castle...
Tue, 25 Jan 1972
Four stop work over inch of rainwater and 1,200 laid off By Clifford Webb Midlands Industrial Correspondent Four men who objected...
Wed, 26 Jan 1972
By Clifford Webb British Leyland yesterday made the important breakthrough in its fight with the unions to end piece-work rates at...
Thu, 27 Jan 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland may be called upon to make a substantial compensation payment to...
Sat, 29 Jan 1972
Clifford Webb writes: Negotiations to end piecework at British Leyland's Longbridge, Birmingham, car plant opened yesterday with yet...
Sun, 30 Jan 1972
THE GUARDIAN STRIKES A new dispute stopped production of 1100 and 1300 cars at the British Leyland assembly works at Longbridge...
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