Leyland cuts to survive
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• Leyland Bus has announced major job cuts as part of the new management buy-out team's bid to return the company to profitability.
In a letter to all staff, managing director Ian McKinnon has outlined the company's plans and the implications for job cuts which are all subject to further negotiations. He emphasises the need to change by explaining that Leyland Bus predicts that volume for its products will drop from 1,500 units this year to 900 in1987.
Leyland Bus will close its headquarters building at Thurston Road, Leyland and move to offices at the Farington plant.
The headquarters will lose 158 of its 505 employees. Farington plant will conti nue to produce Hydracyclic gearboxes along with axles, chassis parts and Olympian and Tiger chassis. As a result the Olympian will no longer be built at Workington. Farington will lose 468 of its current 1,262 staff.
The Workington plant will build the new Lynx city bus together with Royal Tiger coaches. Workington loses 131 out of 379 jobs.
The long-expected rationalisation programme has been agreed by the Rover Group which will pay the redundancy costs. Leyland Bus has already announced that the ECW plant at Lowestoft is not included in the management buyout deal and will be closed as soon as its current order for double-deck bodies for London Buses is completed.