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8 May 1962
Business Changes Three key home sales appointments are announced by the British Motor Corporation as a consequence of the retirement...
8 May 1972
The British Leyland Motor Corporation is shortly to complete a £3m. deal to buy outright Innocenti Autoveicoli of Milan, the company...
8 May 1975
Barber shop talk Committee room 16 at the House of Commons was, as expected, packed to the doors yesterday with people eager to see...
8 May 1975
DAILY MIRROR By David Thompson Two British Leyland chiefs talked yesterday of Sir Don. Ryder's "hatchet job" on their management....
8 May 1984
News in Brief BL pickets may halt the Montego BL car workers who are on strike will picket the factory gates of the Longbridge plant...
8 May 2000
BY ANTONY HOPKER Beleagured Rover has received a boost with news that it has achieved its best April sales figures for 10 years. The...
7 May 1959
A regular night shift is likely to start soon at the British Motor Corporation factory of Morris Motors Ltd., Oxford. The following...
7 May 1960
Morris Stoppage The Morris Minor production line at Morris Motors Ltd., Oxford, was halted yesterday by an unofficial strike of 26...
7 May 1963
FROM OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT Production of the Morris 1100 saloon at the British Motor Corporation's Longbridge plant has reached...
7 May 1971
A further 500 A.E.C. workers were laid off yesterday because of the bonus dispute at the British Leyland truck subsidiary's main plant...
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