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Tue, 06 Aug 1974
By Clifford Webb Ford is now outselling British Leyland in the United Kingdom for the first time since the British group was formed...
Thu, 08 Aug 1974
By Clifford Webb British Leyland is expected to offer early retirement or voluntary redundancy to workers throughout the group within...
Sat, 10 Aug 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent A strike over the sacking of two men alleged to have been fighting on the shop...
Mon, 12 Aug 1974
by R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland's long and difficult battle to reform its wages structure now appears to be moving into its final...
Tue, 13 Aug 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare Northern Industrial Correspondent British Leyland, which already faces a crisis over mounting production losses...
Wed, 14 Aug 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare Trouble in the British Leyland car plants persisted yesterday. All production remained at a standstill in the...
Thu, 15 Aug 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare More than 8,500 British Leyland workers were still laid off yesterday because of continuing labour disputes affecting...
Thu, 15 Aug 1974
THE GUARDIAN AUSTIN MORRIS NEWS Production was resumed at British Leyland's Austin-Morris factory at Longbridge, Birmingham, after...
Mon, 19 Aug 1974
The British Leyland Rover assembly plant at Solihull, Birmingham, is expected to be back in operation today after being closed all...
Tue, 20 Aug 1974
Production was halted yesterday at the Alvis factory in Coventry, British Leyland's military vehicle division, because of a strike...
Wed, 21 Aug 1974
roduction at the Alvis works in Coventry, British Leyland's military vehicle division, was again at a standstill yesterday because...
Sat, 24 Aug 1974
A two-week- old strike by 260 workers at British Leyland's Butec factory at Leyland, Lancashire, ended yesterday when the men accepted...
Tue, 27 Aug 1974
By R. W. Shakespeare British Leyland is facing a shut-down on car assembly operation at its Austin Morris plants at Longbridge, Birmingham,...
Wed, 28 Aug 1974
With all the American-owned Chrysler Company's car production in Britain at a standstill, yesterday British Leyland had to stop its...
Wed, 28 Aug 1974
EVENING TIMES Comments by a former BBC economics correspondent that a factory complex owned by British Leyland was a 'skivers paradise'...
Thu, 29 Aug 1974
British Leyland yesterday denied that its Cowley car plant was a "skiver's paradise", as alleged earlier by Mr Graham Turner, a journalist...
Thu, 29 Aug 1974
Six thousand workers at the Austin and Morris factories in Cowley have been laid off because of a pay strike in Birmingham. The strike,...
Fri, 30 Aug 1974
Here is the plant-by-plant position in the industry yesterday: British Leyland: Production has been halted at the central transmissions...
Fri, 30 Aug 1974
By Clifford Webb Mr Keith Hopkins, the 44- year-old head of British Leyland's public relations department, is to become managing director...
Fri, 30 Aug 1974
The news that Keith Hopkins, the British Leyland public relations chief, is to take over as managing director of the corporation's...
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