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...names still strike a nostalgic chord in the hearts of automotive enthusiasts: the MG and Triumph sports cars, the four-wheel drive Land Rover and the sleek Jaguar. But these days BL Ltd. (formerly British Leyland), Britain's one remaining large-scale auto producer, is only a pale shadow of its former self. MG production ceased a year ago, and the last Triumph was built in October. And now, the very existence of BL is in doubt...
Since it took over BL in 1975, the British government has invested $4.4 billion, much of it to modernize the company's production facilities. Yet the problems persist. Workers, already far less productive than their foreign competitors, are prone to going out on strike at the drop of a wrench. BL's management has often been slow to prune outmoded, unprofitable car lines or to react to changes in the auto market. The company, for example, stopped exporting Land Rovers to the U.S. in 1976, mainly because of a shortage of capacity, and thus missed a boom...
...BL owes its survival up to now to recent steps taken by BL Chairman Sir Michael Edwardes, 51. The South African-born boss has attempted to turn this ward of the state into a well-run and profitable company by closing plants and slashing the work force by at least 25,000 workers. But the attempts of Edwardes to reform BL may have run into an impasse...
...BL's future is now being threatened by new strikes over an eleven-minute reduction in that most sacrosanct of British workers' institutions: the tea break. The unions had earlier agreed to reduce daily tea and rest breaks from 51 minutes to 40 minutes in exchange for a cutback in the work week from 40 hours to 39 hours. But 2,200 workers, angry over their defeat on wages, decided to walk out. The strike halted production of 1,200 cars...
...backed up the baseline, and Wark threw to shortstop Bauer, who ran Landry down the line toward home and flipped to Martelli for the putout. Scott meanwhile advancing to third. Scorich forced the batter, Don McGuirk, to pop up on the next pitch. BOSTON COLLEGE (7) AB R H Bl Follen, df 4 1 1 1 DeDonato, 2b 4 1 1 1 Mayock, 1b 4 1 3 0 Smith, rf 4 0 1 1 Casey, dh 2 2 1 1 Depalma, ph 0 0 0 0 Landry, 3b 4 0 1 1 Scott, ss 3 1 1 1 McGulrk...