British-South African business executive (1930–2019)
For those of a similar name, see Michael Edwards (disambiguation).
Sir
Michael Edwardes
Born
Michael Owen Edwardes
(1930-10-11)11 October 1930
Port Elizabeth, Union of South Africa
Died
15 September 2019(2019-09-15) (aged 88)
Nationality
South African, British
Education
Rhodes University
Employer
British Leyland
Title
Chairman
Term
1977–1982
Children
3
Sir Michael Owen Edwardes (11 October 1930 – 15 September 2019)[1] was a British-South African business executive who held chairmanships at several companies - most notably motor manufacturer British Leyland in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
^"Sir Michael Edwardes, pugnacious chairman of British Leyland who won the backing of the workforce to break the power of the shop stewards – obituary". The Telegraph. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
1980s. Edwardes was born in Port Elizabeth, and was matriculated from St. Andrew's College in 1947 before graduating from Rhodes University. Edwardes began...
the Austin Mini Metro in 1980. In 1977, MichaelEdwardes was appointed chief executive by the NEB. Edwardes quickly reversed the Ryder Report's policy...
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published by Aakar Books 2007, chapters 5 and 6 Edwardes (1975) Red Year. London: Sphere Books; p. 122 Edwardes Red Year: one of two quotations to begin pt...
Gokhale: revolution and reform in the making of modern India (1962) p 67 MichaelEdwardes, High Noon of Empire: India under Curzon (1965) p. 77 Moore, "Imperial...
Archived from the original on 10 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014. MichaelEdwardes (1975) Red Year. London: Sphere Books; p. 104 Christopher Hibbert (1980)...
2011 album by Kourosh Yaghmaei Back from the Brink, a 1983 book by MichaelEdwardes Back from the Brink, a 2006 autobiography by Paul McGrath Back from...
people. 1968 The Jewel in the Lotus Allen Edwardes This book cannot be imported into India. Allen Edwardes was the pen-name of a scholar who wrote on...
until all-new products were ready for launch. On 26 December 1979, MichaelEdwardes officially signed a collaboration between the two companies. The new...
forced a major change in the project's focus. In late 1977, BL chairman MichaelEdwardes ordered that ADO88 be given an eleventh-hour redesign to make it both...
Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019. MichaelEdwardes, Battles of the Indian Mutiny, Pan, 1963, ISBN 0-330-02524-4 Richard...
long) by C. G. Rossetti is reprinted in an appendix to Red Year, by MichaelEdwardes, 1975, as part of an appendix "The Muse and the Mutiny" (pp. 174-183)...
name. The old Austin engine was no longer available because, during MichaelEdwardes' reconstruction of British Leyland, the plant had been sold to India...
rumoured to be an illegitimate son of Henry VIII. Richard Edwardes was born in 1525 in Somerset. Edwardes began his studies at Corpus Christi College, Oxford...
Robinson, and appointed South African-born corporate troubleshooter Sir MichaelEdwardes to turn BL around. His first task was to curb the large amount of power...
struggling. A rationalisation plan introduced by incoming BL chairman MichaelEdwardes saw the TR7 put on life support by axing the MG MGB as it was felt...
State Maratha Maratha Empire Online Gallery of the British Library MichaelEdwardes Red Year:The Indian Rebellion of 1857, London, 1975 ed, p.53 Online...
Coe (1987), p.65. MichaelEdwardes, Indian Temples and Palaces, London: Hamlyn, 1969, p. 95. Harle, 421-425 Harle, 425 Coe, Michael D. (1987). The Maya...
be built and new policies implemented by BL's new chief executive, MichaelEdwardes, led to the Lynx's cancellation. Triumph planned a coupé version of...
British Architecture in India, 1660–1947. New York: Penguin Books, 1987 MichaelEdwardes, Battles of the Indian Mutiny, Pan, 1963, ISBN 0-330-02524-4 Ashutosh...
the Marina name was dropped on the orders of British Leyland CEO, MichaelEdwardes, and only the Ital name was used. The Ital had revised exterior styling...
International Motor Museum respectively. One was used by BL chairman Sir MichaelEdwardes as personal transport in the late 1970s. The two cars as befit prototypes...
agreement with Japan's Fujitsu. In 1984, Laidlaw was succeeded by Sir MichaelEdwardes, previously chairman of motor manufacturer British Leyland. On 26 July...
Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. In 1958, she married MichaelEdwardes; the marriage ended in divorce in 1983 and he died in 1990. Until her...
were Jaimal Singh Naqqash, Mehtab Singh Naqqash, and Hukum Singh. MichaelEdwardes had dated the mural paintings of the tower to the early 19th century...
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