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Thu, 03 Apr 1975
By Clifford Webb British Leyland distributors and dealers yesterday reported so much interest in the company's new model 1800/2200...
Fri, 04 Apr 1975
Shop stewards at British Leyland factories are to fight any attempts to dismiss workers. They fear that rationalization proposals recommended...
Tue, 08 Apr 1975
DAILY MIRROR By Robert Head A big personal worry hangs over 150 top executives in British Leyland — apart from their other problems....
Tue, 15 Apr 1975
By Clifford Webb Lord Stokes, British Leyland's chairman, is understood to have written to the Prime Minister stressing the need for...
Wed, 16 Apr 1975
By Peter Wainwright British Leyland has approached the Department of Industry for more help. Parliamentary approval for government...
Sat, 19 Apr 1975
By R. W. .Shakespeare All car production at British Leyland's Austin Morris plant at Cowley, Oxford, was stopped yesterday and more...
Wed, 23 Apr 1975
By Clifford Webb Shop stewards at British Leyland's Rover car plant were told yesterday that they must accept another 500 redundancies...
Thu, 24 Apr 1975
By Andrew Goodrick-Clarke Soon after Lord Stokes, British Leyland's chairman, met Mr Wedgwood Benn, Secretary of State for Industry,...
Thu, 24 Apr 1975
The crisis in the motor industry and in particular British Leyland's nail-biting wait for the publication of the Ryder report today...
Thu, 24 Apr 1975
DAILY EXPRESS By Graham Turner Author of " The Leyland Papers ," the inside story of our biggest car-makers. When I went to British...
Thu, 24 Apr 1975
David Benson LORD STOKES was never in favour of the Harold Wilson inspired merger of British Motor Holdings and Leyland Triumph that...
Fri, 25 Apr 1975
Sweeping changes ahead for giant motor group The Government is to take over British Leyland, the giant motor manufacturing company....
Fri, 25 Apr 1975
By David Young and Penny Symon After what was probably the last meeting of the British Leyland board in its present form had ended...
Fri, 25 Apr 1975
Mr John Barber, managing director, whose job disappears in the restructuring when Mr Alex Park, Leyland's financial director, takes,...
Fri, 25 Apr 1975
DAILY EXPRESS By Frank Thorne and Brian Cashinella Sacked British Leyland boss John Barber is the "scapegoat" in the Governments'...
Sat, 26 Apr 1975
They were Bill Haden of Ford and later boss of Jaguar Bill Davis, ex-BMC, then head of BLMC corporate manufacturing David Andrews,...