29 APRIL 1978, page 14

Hemlock Offer

Michael Becket British Leyland's rights issue of shares must be the most uninviting since the hemlock offer to Socrates. Even the company went out of its way to warn......

Going Metric

Geoffrey Wheatcroft Three years ago Lord Orr-Ewing, then Chairman of the Metrication Board, said that 'The country is now approaching a critical stage. . . it has always been......