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Mon, 01 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent Production of the Marina car range at British Leyland's Cowley car plant is...
Tue, 02 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare Continuing troubles on the shop floor at British Leyland's car plant at Cowley, Oxford, led to another shutdown...
Wed, 03 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare A fresh wave of strikes in the car, components and engineering industries, is taking a heavy toll of production....
Thu, 04 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare Labour disputes, which have cost British Leyland some £8m. worth in lost car production over the past eight days,...
Sun, 07 Apr 1974
THE OBSERVER THREE YEARS HARD LABOUR By David Wilson After losing £100 million worth of production from the three-day week British...
Tue, 09 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare A strike that has cost British Leyland some £10m worth of Marina car output at Cowley, Oxford and led to a management...
Wed, 10 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland has run into more labour troubles. Yesterday several car assembly lines were at a standstill...
Thu, 11 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare All car production at British Leyland's two Austin-Morris plants at Cowley, Oxford and Longbridge, Birmingham...
Sat, 13 Apr 1974
From R. W. Shakespeare More trouble could be on the way at the strike hit British Leyland car plant at Cowley, Oxford, when it reopens...
Wed, 17 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare The huge British Leyland Austin-Morris car plant at Cowley, Oxford, which reopened yesterday morning after the...
Thu, 18 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare The overtime ban in the engineering industry, called by the unions in support of pay demands for two million...
Sat, 20 Apr 1974
BY Clifford Webb The national overtime ban by engineering union workers is already causing serious production losses to British Leyland....
Mon, 22 Apr 1974
By Clifford Webb After a weekend of growing speculation on its future, British Leyland last night issued a strongly worded statement...
Mon, 22 Apr 1974
DAILY MIRROR Lord Stokes denied reports that the Government might take a controlling stake in his company — Britain's biggest exporters...
Tue, 23 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare Car production was again the main casualty of the national overtime ban in engineering as the campaign in support...
Wed, 24 Apr 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent British Leyland has decided to attempt to isolate the militants at its strike-bound...
Thu, 25 Apr 1974
MOTOR THE NEW MAN AT JAGUAR Chief Executive Geoffrey Robinson talks to Philip Turner about his own post and Jaguar's future. They...
Fri, 26 Apr 1974
DAILY MIRROR British Leyland boss Lord Stokes called last night for a new plan to replace " the same worn-out -solutions " to Britain's...
Mon, 29 Apr 1974
By Peter Waymark Motoring Correspondent British Leyland is dropping three models in its Austin Allegro small saloon range, less than...