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PDF 85 Sep 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Department of Trade and Industry - the next moves") [British Leyland privatisation; new brooms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute: Policy Unit to Norgrove ("ARG borrowings") [British Leyland privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Brittan minute to MT ("BL privatisation") [British Leyland stalling over sale of Unipart; GM being courted for Land Rover-Leyland sale] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Leon Brittan on BL") [British Leyland stalling over sale of Unipart; GM being courted for Land Rover-Leyland sale] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Peter Morrison) ["BL": privatisation of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Brittan ("BL privatisation") [dismayed by delay of Unipart sell-off; GM negotiations; "...1oo per cent of the businesses should be sold ... [but] separate out.... profitable companies like Land Rover for separate privatisation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL") [ailing British Leyland being taken in hand by Government; Unipart to be sold off] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Brittan minute to MT ("BL privatisation: GM/Land Rover-Leyland") [Government's conditions if sale is to proceed; need for disposal of loss-making Leyland Bus prior to GM deal; injection of public money to pay off BL residual debts, and the associated political risk] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Bids for Unipart and Austin Rover") ["If both Ford for ARG and GM for LR-L are succssful, then BL could be history by the middle of 1986. The downside is the political difficulty... and... debt which could cost the contingency reserve £400m"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Nov 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL privatisation - GM/Land Rover-Leyland") ["While we should press GM to increase their offer... if the businesses are not sold then losses will continue and borrowings mount. The equity injection will score against PSBR but this is little to pay compared to the long term savings..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: John MacGregor minute to MT ("BL privatisation: GM/Land Rover-Leyland") [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Brittan minute to MT ("Ford/Austin Rover ("Maverick")") ["...although it raises some very difficult questions for us, the Ford approach offers the only realistic early opportunity for achieving our privatisation objectives"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Meeting on BL") [GM bid for Land Rover-Leyland; Ford bid for Austin Rover] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Lawson, Peter Morrison) ["BL privatisation": "...the main issue was the treatment of debt relating to LRL..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL privatisation: GM/Land Rover-Leyland") [Government & GM haggling over price] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Brittan letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("BL privatisation: GM/Land Rover-Leyland") [financial strategies for closing the deal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with Mr Brittan") [sale of British Leyland - "These discussions need of course now to be seen in the light of the Westland affair..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Chairman/Chief Executive of Land Rover-Leyland Ltd letter to MT (possible sale by BL plc of Land Rover UK Ltd and related businesses) ["My declared interest is in exploring the feasability of a consortium backed management buy-out of Land Rover UK Ltd... deep concerns about certain aspects of the SALTON proposals..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("BL: LRL and ARG") ["The effect of the heated debate on Westland has been to focus attention on the extent of US ownership of sectors of British industry"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Leyland") [GM bid for Land Rover-Leyland/Ford bid for Austin Rover] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("BL privatisation") [options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL bids - is foreign ownership bad?") [British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("Opposition Day Debate on BL") [British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("E(A) - BL") [sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("BL: Austin Rover Group") [consideration of prospective bidders] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Dependence of components suppliers on Austin Rover") [statistics] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Channon, Peter Morrison) [sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Channon, Peter Morrison) [bids for British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("New bids for BL") ["Eight new bids have been received for parts of [British Leyland]. At this late stage in the GM negotiations these are more of an embarrassment than a help"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: MT letter to Chairman/Chief Executive of Ford (sale of the Austin Rover Group) [courtesy letter to mend bridges after public backlash forces Ford out of the bidding] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry record of conversation ("Note of a meeting with West Midland MPS to discuss the proposals to return Land-Rover Leyland to the private sector...") [Peter Morrison, Gilroy Bevan MP, Anthony Beaumont-Dark MP, Reginald Eyre MP, Roger King MP, John M Taylor MP] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("British Leyland") [MISC 126: GM and other bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Morrison PS internal minute to DTI officials (British Leyland) [sale of BL: Morrison to meet with TUC delegation: briefing request] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office internal minute ("BL") [British Leyland: "The Prime Minister decided this morning to set up a small Ministerial Group to consider handling and tactics in relation to the GM bid... following the decisions at E(A)... to support the GM proposals"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Cabinet: Parliamentary affairs") [GM bid for British Leyland; nuclear waste disposal] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("BL") [briefing for Cabinet colleagues on sale of British Leyland and GM bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Leyland") [GM and other bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("B.L.") [sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office internal minute ("BL: MISC 126") [sale of British Leyland: MISC administration] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("BL") [draft MISC 126 paper on sale of British Leyland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("BT") [announcement of new Chairman; and " you may want at MISC 126 to agree a form of words which can be used after Cabinet about the discussions on BL"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Land Rover management buy-out") [figures and offer deadline] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("British Leyland") [MISC 126: bids; timeline for consideration; public presentation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Land Rover Leyland") [MISC 126: bids; timeline for consideration; public presentation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Land Rover/Leyland") [request for briefing on GM deal and for more information about alternative bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT (Land Rover/Freight Rover buy-out) [MT request for "...evidence that E(A) knew of the management interest... when the decision was take to support Salton"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Which road for Austin Rover?") [options for selling off; "...I cannot believe [the banks] know the full horror of the situation"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Rowe & Maw solicitors to MT ("The 'Keep Land Rover British' campaign") [recounts "disappointing" response from General Secretary of TGWU to his proposal that Unions "...be prepared to put up equity ..." for alternatives to GM bid] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Feb 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Land Rover Leyland (LRL)") [alternatives to GM bid, and "possibility of a joint venture between GM and the Management buy-out in respect of Freight and Land Rover"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry briefing for MT (meeting with West Midland MPS about the possible sale of Land Rover-Leyland) ["...future could best be secured in the private sector..."] [declassified Dec 2014]

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