British Leyland was a conglomerate incorporating most of the marques of the British automotive industry in 1968, which was then taken over by the UK government during the following decade and became ...

After the Second World War, the United Kingdom’s newly elected Labour government resolved to build of Britain a New Jerusalem. It nationalized the commanding heights of the economy and inaugurated the ...

British Leyland: a reliable source of jokes for ‘Fawlty Towers’, Private Eye and anyone searching for a symbol of Failing Britain in the 1970s. And it was also, briefly, the second biggest car company ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 monopoly would be as damaging to broadcasting as British Leyland was to the automotive industry A ...

Government bailouts of automotive giants aren't a new development — the British did it with British Leyland in 1974. Garrel Rhys, director of the Center for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff ...

It’s not hard to find diehards who will blame one man for the demise. Once seen as the country’s super salesman, that man is Lord Donald Stokes, who died in 2008. Sir Alec Issigonis designed the Mini, ...

Sir Michael Edwardes, the head of British Leyland during its troubled last years, has died, U.K. newspapers reported. He was 88. The South African-born executive was appointed chairman of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lord Stokes, who has died at the age of 94, was the central figure in the reorganisation of the British motor ...

Kirsty Wark gathers management, workers and union leaders from the giant car-maker British Leyland. In 1968, the Labour Government instigated the merger of two leading motoring manufacturers to form ...

Michael Edwardes, a famously pugnacious industrial turnaround artist in Britain who rescued the Jaguar, Mini and Land Rover automotive brands in the late 1970s while becoming a union scourge, died on ...