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BLMC at the motor show
16 October 1974
DAILY MIRROR
At the Motor Show
Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland, said: “There is a lot of unfounded speculation about British Leyland. We are a soundly based company and all we are doing, as they say in Lancashire, is cutting our coat to suit our cloth.”
MG - On this day the rubber bumper MGB and Midget are announced at the Earls Court motor show.
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