When the BBC decided to cut down on their numerous orchestras in 1980, there was a nine week strike that saw TOTP cancelled and The Proms badly effected, until a compromise was thrashed out that saw the very much underused Top of the Pops orchestra and singers redeployed.Enter your username or email to reset your password. Over at Jaguar there seems to have been little affection between Sir William Lyons and his workforce. Created www.austin-rover.co.uk in 2001 and built it up to become the world's foremost reference source for all things BMC, Leyland and Rover Group, before renaming it AROnline in 2007.By Clifford Webb Midland Industrial Correspondent British Leyland’s biggest car plant, the Austin-Morris complex at Longbridge, Birmingham, was again at a standstill yesterday with 7,500 men laid off, almost half of them on the night If Heath was still in by 1975 the momentum for revolt likely would have been greater. BLMC had three best sellers, the Mini, ADO16 1100/1300 and the Morris Marina. Odd we never ever had a BL product..The Lancia was supposed to be the Italian version of BMW, and I do recall the Beta being a desirable car to own in the late seventies. The men said that, when they had done their work, they should be allowed to go home.The men at Drews Lane had worked to rule for several weeks in protest at management attempts to stop them leaving early. Lord Stokes was an advocate of EEC membership. That was a grand total of 487,897.By now well over half of BMC’s weekly car output was of these two Alec Issigonis-designed cars. ( Somehow an orchestra trying to perform a punk record would be comical). Since 1945 the politicians and analysts had exhorted the British motor industry to produce a volume car that would appeal to export markets in the same way as the Volkswagen Beetle. Born in Bedfordshire but now residing in Norfolk, Ian Nicholls is an ardent BL enthusiast. A shame really as improvements to the Maxi, Princess and Allegro had made these cars as good as many of their European rivals and certainly British Leyland never had to endure the sort of scandal that was engulfing Lancia at the time, where poor rustproofing was causing the engines to fall out of relatively new cars.A combination of poor steel and corrosion, so Lancia weren’t entirely to blame. National pride was still a vital factor in those years after WW2.In hindsight this was a complacent attitude to take, the empire was gradually declining, sometimes through violence, and many of the citizens of the newly independent nations resented their former colonial masters. DAILY EXPRESS LEYLAND REBELS IN NO CUTS STAND By Declan Cunningham Leyland shop stewards launched a last ditch campaign yesterday... “Hello there we are looking for witnesses to the fire next door can you help”. Next problem was Britian’s competitors established themselves in the British market and the native manufacturers could not compete.No Government could have easily solved the problems. We shall return to public ownership assets and licences hived-off by the present Government, and we shall create a powerful National Enterprise Board with the structure and functions set out in Labour’s Programme 1973.‘We intend to socialise existing nationalised industries. In Britain this resulted in car sales dropping by 30 per cent as Lord Stokes was wont to point out but, in reality, this meant a return to the more normal level seen before the ‘Barber Boom’. In the morning when they woke up they had large banging on the door – it was the police. Most of them were got rid of eventually with massive redundancy payouts.“Doubling up” as it was known-working extra fast so you could bunk off-wasn’t confined to BL either.

Whether or not unions in the UK took industrial action more than unions in Europe and North America is a moot point, much of the rubbish produced by the NoW, Daily Mail etc is treated as if it was historical fact nowdays where it should be regarded as propagandaThat kind of thing went on a lot in the 70s. Surely it would have been better to drop the 1800 or Maxi or move them on a single line to release capacity for the Marina.The Marina/Ital was built in Cowley South Works. However, in doing so BMC had raised expectations of Britain maintaining a world-class motor industry on this kind of level. 90,000 BL workers to get copies of 'ultimatum' By Clifford Webb British Leyland's Nuffield Press subsidiary yesterday began rushing... Even he must have known that the Morris Marina was a rush released parts bin special and it could not compare with the more properly engineered Ford Cortina Mk3 and comparable European rivals.The ‘Barber Boom’ in fact caught the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland out. Trying to persuade the unions to dispense with piecework and accept measured day work within the newly-formed British Leyland proved problematical, as the first attempts were met with an outright rebuttal.The 1966 Seamen’s Strike had shown the Government how the trade unions could hold the country to ransom and damage the already fragile economy. The flashpoint came with the 1972 Miners’ Strike that saw the Heath Government capitulate to the National Union of Mineworkers as the lights went out across Britain.This again demonstrated the power of the trade union movement to hold the country to ransom.BMLC Finance Director John Barber had wanted to shed around 30,000 jobs when the merged company was formed in 1968.

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