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Sat, 01 Sep 1979
DAILY MIRROR Leyland To Slash 6000 More Jobs By Alan Law British Leyland bosses are planning to axe another 6000 jobs on top of the...
Sun, 02 Sep 1979
DAILY EXPRESS CAR STRIKERS SET FOR ANGRY CLASH By David Jack SCORES of extra police will be standing by for tomorrow's showdown in...
Tue, 04 Sep 1979
DAILY MIRROR Strike Revolt Flops As Car Workers Stay Home The great anti-strike protest turned into a major flop yesterday. Thousands...
Thu, 06 Sep 1979
THE GUARDIAN The Engineering Dispute Rumbles on By John Ardill British Leyland has 8,000 workers idle , on strike or laid off ,as...
Tue, 11 Sep 1979
Daily Express THE PARTY'S OVER By Peter Hitchens After the party, the new dawn breaks bleakly for Leyland today , a prospect of closing...
Tue, 11 Sep 1979
DAILY MIRROR Bitter Unions Hit Out Union Reaction reaction to the Leyland cutbacks was shocked and bitter. Engineering union president...
Tue, 11 Sep 1979
DAILY EXPRESS THE ONLY WAY LEFT FOR LEYLAND By Jeremy Gates It has been nourished, for these four long years since the days of the...
Wed, 12 Sep 1979
DAILY EXPRESS LEYLAND UNIONS SET FOR A FIGHT Union leaders are squaring up for a battle, to save thousands of jobs threatened by the...
Wed, 12 Sep 1979
Bus Makers Take BL For A Ride Leyland bus makers were accused yesterday of deliberately keeping production low. Commenting on the...
Sat, 15 Sep 1979
THE GUARDIAN STRIKE WARNING OVER LEYLAND REDUNDANCY PLAN By Keith Harper, Labour Editor Shop stewards representing Transport and General...
Tue, 18 Sep 1979
DAILY EXPRESS ENGINEERS STRIKE For British Leyland. the anti-strike revolt grew at Castle Bromwich (Birmingham) as about 3,000 workers...
Wed, 19 Sep 1979
DAILY EXPRESS The news was bleak, too, for British Leyland last night when all major unions had rejected the plan by company boss...
Sat, 22 Sep 1979
DAILY EXPRESS UNION THREAT OVER LEYLAND CUTS By Barry Devney Britain's biggest union is drawing up battle plans to prevent the "surgery...
Mon, 24 Sep 1979
THE GUARDIAN CONTEMPT FUELS PARK ROYAL REVOLOUTION By Nick Davies When the body shop at British Leyland's Park Royal works ran out...
Mon, 24 Sep 1979
From TIME magazine Business: A Name Acquired, another Retired Monday, Sep. 24, 1979 For at least two generations of Americans, it...
Sat, 29 Sep 1979
THE GUARDIAN THE EMBARRASSING MINI'S By Jane McLoughlin The BL Mini has sold itself into a shortage. BL has maintained its market...
Sun, 30 Sep 1979
DAILY EXPRESS LEYLAND REBEL THE BOSSES DARE NOT HIRE FACES NEW THREAT By Mark Douglas Home Every day Mike Savage, the anti-strike...
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