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22 Jun 1959
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT COVENTRY, JUNE 21 A meeting is to take place tomorrow of 120 work inspectors on strike over a pay dispute at...
22 Jun 1961
Home News More car workers were without work yesterday because of the Cricklewood strike of car instrument workers at Smiths, which...
22 Jun 1972
British Leyland car and light commercial vehicle production is threatened by a strike of 2,500 workers at the Austin-Morris engine...
22 Jun 1973
On this day the last 15 Rover P5Bs came off the production at Solihull. Rover P5 development story Rover P5 - the Greatest
22 Jun 1974
British Leyland Britain's biggest employer is to cut its labour force. The news was given to union men in London yesterday by top Leyland...
22 Jun 1984
MP fined £200 for drink-drive offence Geoffrey Robinson, Labour MP for Coventry North West, was yesterday ordered to pay £650 in...
21 Jun 1960
Two thousand production men who make Triumph Heralds at the Standard-Triumph works at Coventry were sent home at lunchtime yesterday...
21 Jun 1961
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 20 The British Motor Corporation said here today that 6,000 car workers in Birmingham and...
21 Jun 1962
MORRIS WORKERS GO BACK Work returned to normal yesterday at Morris Motors factory at Cowley, Oxford, after a stoppage on Tuesday on...
21 Jun 1971
THE GUARDIAN IAN BREACH interviews LORD STOKES Safety: British or American standards? 'All I know is, which car I would rather...
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