200 jobs gc at Leyland!
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ANOTHER 200 jobs will dim pear at Leyland's Bathgate pli from the end of April, followi excavator manufacturer J. Bamford's decision to have all its engine requirments satisfi by Perkins.
The company will buy its h 98 Series diesel from Bathgate two months' time, and wh Leyland is saying only that t 200 jobs are "at risk", there is doubt that they will disappear.
Meantime, Leyland is purE ing a collaborative deal for a placement range of engines I the 98 Series, involving Cul mins, which is expanding own engine facilities at t nearby Shotts site. That is due start production in 1985/86.
But Cummins is in troub too, and has announced a 20 r cent cut in the workforce at factories in Darlington al Peterlee, Co Durham, whi supply kit engines to Mexi( Cummins is also sacking 1,100 its Indiana headquarters, in t United States.