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Albert Benjamin Rutter "Bert" Lawrence MC (March 31, 1923 – March 28, 2007) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1974 who represented the ridings of Russell and Carleton East.
Albert Benjamin Rutter "Bert" Lawrence MC (March 31, 1923 – March 28, 2007) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1974 who represented the ridings of Russell and Carleton East.
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- The Austin Morris Story: Planning For The Future
- Austin Maxi: Patience Is A Virtue
- Introducing New Cost-Control Measures
- So What Had Turnbull Inherited?
- Plant Upgrades as Well as New Cars Needed
- The Rivals Up Their Game
- Ford in The Ascendancy
- The Industrial Relations Issue
- The Austin Maxi Is Scooped
- Rationalisation Starts in Earnest
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The new year of 1969 dawned with the news that Sir Donald Stokes had been given a peerage – henceforth, he would be known as Lord Stokes of Leyland. At the same time, the media was reporting that the new ADO14, which was still being referred to as the 1500 in the press and was the first completely new car to come out of the former BMC factories for...
According to the press, George Turnbull(above) was determined that the 1500 would not come to the market until it was absolutely ready. He described it as ‘the toughest job in my whole team.’ The spectre of the enormous damage caused by the premature appearance of the BMC 1800 (ADO17) in 1964 still haunted Longbridge. He was quoted as saying; ‘Prep...
Read more: Austin Maxi prototypes and development The 1500 was also being subjected to the tightest cost control of any model hitherto produced in the old BMC factories. Central purchasing for the whole British Leyland group was considered but rejected in favour of what George Turnbull described as ‘centralised control of prices by consent.’ The gr...
On paper, the Austin Morris division had a nominal capacity of one million cars annually, but George Turnbull considered that in practice this figure could not be reached without further expansion. He was looking for around 850,000 in 1969. The establishment of a new model policy to follow on after the upcoming 1500 was his most pressing task. ‘If ...
BMC’s critics had made much of the need for extensive modernisation of its plants, but George Turnbull said he was pleasantly surprised when he arrived to find so much really first-class equipment. He said: ‘Where it does not appear too impressive, it is because production facilities are split up into a number of factories rather than concentrated ...
At the beginning of 1968 Ford of Great Britain had replaced its Anglia model with the new Escort. The Ford management’s deep-rooted conviction, derived from the strip down of a Mini in 1960, that there was no money to be made from front-wheel-drive cars, was exposed for all to see. Despite the temptation to do otherwise, the new Escort was conventi...
The 1968 financial performance of Ford was all the more impressive when one considers that, like Austin Morris and the 1800 (ADO17), it had one serious under performer in its ranks in the form of the Mk4 Zephyr/Zodiac executive car. It was fortunate for British Leyland that the Escort impacted little if anything on its Austin Morris division. The E...
The other issue affecting Austin Morris was the rapidly declining industrial relations climate. In 1967, an aggregated 2,787,000 days were lost due to strike action in all UK industries and services. In 1968, this soared to 4,690,000 aggregate days, an increase of 68 per cent. Things were even worse in the motor industry. In 1967, 504,000 aggregate...
Then, on 19 January, the Swedish newspaper Expressen published scoop photographs of the forthcoming ADO14 Austin 1500 undergoing winter testing in Finland. The newspaper said: ‘Expressen can today as the first newspaper in the world present news the automobile world has been waiting a long time for – a big Mini from BMC with an overhead camshaft! A...
Lord Stokes made clear that he was opposed to a brutal rationalisation programme at British Leyland when attending a lunch in London on 30 January. He said: ‘We didn’t join BMC and Leyland together to destroy it. We formed it to give our people a sense of permanent employment.’ The next day British Leyland sent its first Annual report to 200,000 sh...
This web page is about the history of Austin Morris division of British Leyland in 1969, with no mention of bert lawrence. It covers topics such as the launch of ADO14, the new model policy, and the cost control measures.
- Ian Nicholls
Learn about the life and background of the famous writer D. H. Lawrence, who was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire in 1885. Explore his family history, education, and early influences in this extended biography.
Bert Lawrence was born in 1923. He was a writer and director, known for Ghost Chasers (1951), Lucky Losers (1950) and Hold That Line (1952). He died on 25 May 1971 in New York City, New York, USA.
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