Greg Barnes, Anglia TV
… Hangar 17—so vast it dwarfed even the Prime Ministerial party—is large enough to five wide-bodied jet airlines. Marshalls is the largest specialist aircraft overhaul centre in Britain. Mrs Thatcher climbed a forty five foot high platform for a close look at the business end of a Tristar jet airliner being converted into a flying refuelling tanker for the RAF. The refuelling probe developed by Marshalls can take on more fuel more quickly than any other design.
MT
[talking to Marshalls staff:] So that's very very skilled flying?
Marshalls Man
Yes it is.
Greg Barnes, Anglia TV
Marshalls is one of the biggest private family businesses in Britain. It has a turnover of £170m a year. It was, said Mrs Thatcher, an example of how a company could bring prosperity to an area but using its own talents and energy. cut to film of MT walking round Papworth Hospital:
Greg Barnes, Anglia TV
At Papworth Mrs Thatcher toured the hospital which has pioneered heart transplant surgery in Britain. It was the first hospital to carry out a triple transplant—heart, lungs and liver—but it also undertakes all types of open-heart surgery. Accompanied by transplant pioneer surgeons John Walwark and Terence English, Mrs Thatcher spoke to patients just day after their operations. MT speaking to patients.
Greg Barnes, Anglia TV
chanting demonstrators: “We say fight back/Please don't cut back/We say fight back”A small group of students protesting about grants greeted the Prime Minister as she arrived at Cambridge Science Park this afternoon. The Park—the first in England—has played a major role in “the Cambridge phenomenon” , the name given to the tremendous progress made in the area in technology and prosperity. The Park is a centre for innovative high tech companies that benefit from links with the major scientific university on their doorstep. MT walking
Greg Barnes, Anglia TV
Good afternoon Prime Minister. [end p1]
MT
Good afternoon.
Greg Barnes, Anglia TV
Prime Minister, what example is Cambridge setting the rest of the country?
MT
[sore-throated voice] Excellent. The cooperation between the university and people in business is industry is really right up with the leading edge of technology. They're producing the latest products and … uh, they're looking for markets for them and I believe they'll find those markets. It's just everything that we're wanting them to do.
Greg barnes, Anglia TV
This is a particularly prosperous area. What lessons has it got for other parts?
MT
Lessons it's got is that you use your talent and ability cooperating with those who have got … know about business, that it becomes prosperous. That's how Britain's first industrial revolution was built and now and second one's being built.