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Tue, 01 Feb 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent A strike by 500 white collar workers brought car production to a standstill at British...
Fri, 04 Feb 1972
More than 1000 engine assemblers on the day and night shifts at the Austin- Morris factory of British Leyland at Longbridge, Birmingham,...
Fri, 04 Feb 1972
"Sir William's success, and eminence in the motor industry are too self evident to require further words from me." This was yesterday's...
Fri, 04 Feb 1972
DAILY MIRROR Where The Profit Isn’t So Sweet By Robert Head Mighty British Leyland, our biggest exporter, is less profitable than...
Sat, 05 Feb 1972
Meanwhile another 3,500 Scottish vehicle industry workers are still on strike at the British Leyland truck and tractor plant at Bathgate....
Tue, 08 Feb 1972
All production of Jaguar Cars in Coventry was halted yesterday and more than 2,000 workers made idle by a fresh walkout of clerical...
Wed, 09 Feb 1972
By Clifford Webb More British Leyland workers were laid off at Austin-Morris car plants in Birmingham yesterday bringing the total...
Thu, 10 Feb 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland is being made to pay dearly for its determination to replace piecework...
Thu, 10 Feb 1972
By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland Motors Corporation launches three new trucks for operating at the...
Sat, 12 Feb 1972
More car workers were laid off yesterday at British Leyland's Longbridge, Birmingham, plant following the breakdown of talks to settle...
Tue, 15 Feb 1972
THE GUARDIAN THOUSANDS MADE IDLE AS THE POWER CUTS BEGIN TO BITE By Geoffrey Whiteley and Bernard Pratt Thousands of workers in...
Wed, 16 Feb 1972
British Leyland continued yesterday to be the worst affected group in the motor car sector, with more than 37,000 workers laid off...
Thu, 17 Feb 1972
THE GUARDIAN JAGUAR SEEKS LARGER ELECTRICITY ALLOCATION By Geoffrey Whitely, Northern Labour correspondent Jaguar, whose Coventry...
Sat, 19 Feb 1972
THE GUARDIAN 100,000 IDLE IN CAR TRADE By our Northern Labour Correspondent As the miners pay dispute moved nearer a settlement...
Thu, 24 Feb 1972
THE GUARDIAN New rise will give Triumph toolroom workers £47 a week By GEOFFREY WHITELEY, Northern Labour Correspondent Another...
Sat, 26 Feb 1972
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent British Leyland failed in another attempt yesterday to end a seven week strike...
Mon, 28 Feb 1972
GLASGOW HERALD Bathgate Stewards Defy Union By James McKillop Despite warnings that the Bathgate plant of British Leyland is on...
Mon, 28 Feb 1972
EVENING TIMES By Frankie McGowan Sir Williams Lyons successor will be F.R.W. England, his present deputy chairman. "I have gradually...
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