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PDF 82 Jul 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MT letter to General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (Cunard/Atlantic Conveyor Order) [explains why she cannot comply with his request that she instruct Cunard to 'buy British'] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jul 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress letter to MT ("Atlantic Conveyor") [request to meet with MT to discuss concern at possibility of contract going to foreign company] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jul 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Jenkin minute to MT ("Cunard/ACL Order") [Government subsidy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jul 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Jenkin, Nott, Tebbit) ["Cunard Order"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jul 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Prior letter to Hurd (soft credit and third party guarantees for shipbuilding) [legal considerations] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jul 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Patrick Jenkin, Brian Mower, Trades Union Congress delegation) ["Atlantic Conveyor "Replacement""] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jul 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Jenkin, Cockfield, Nott, Lamont, Mumford, Robert Atkinson, John Parker) ["Cunard/ACL Order"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Jul 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Industry briefing for MT (MT, Howe, Jenkin, Cockfield, Nott, Lamont, Mumford, Robert Atkinson, John Parker) ["Cunard/ACL Order"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Aug 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to MT (British Shipbuilders: shiprepair costs) [private sector concerns about unfair competition leads to No.10 request for monthly updates on shiprepair figures] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Sep 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Harland and Wolff Limited: Possible Order from Blue Star Line") [financial aid to secure order; "Without the order, closure would be virtually inevitable"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Oct 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Prior minute to MT ("Harland and Wolff: Blue Star Line Order") [MT does not share Prior's view that wage economy & reduction of manpower contingent on securing order] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Oct 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Norman Lamont letter to MT (British Shipbuilders: monthly profit and loss figures for ship repair) [MT concerned by reversal of decision to close shipyard] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Oct 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Harland & Wolff: publication of accounts") [measures being taken to address losses] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Oct 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont PS letter to No.10 (British Shipbuilders: reversal of decision to close Middle Dock at South Shields) [rationale for decision; MT irate nevertheless] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Nov 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Industry record of conversation (British Shipbuilders: reversal of decision to close Middle Dock at South Shields) [Norman Lamont, Robert Atkinson: Lamont conveys MT's annoyance] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Nov 15 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Conservative Research Department briefing (British Shipbuilders Bill: 2nd Reading, 17 November 1982) [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Nov 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Chair of British Shipbuilders (depreciation allowances) ["serious drawbacks... to the kind of restrictions you have proposed"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to MT (British Shipbuilders: sale of shipyards) [potential buyers] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Feb 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Central Policy Review Staff minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders") [inadequacy of Corporate Plan "to measure up to BS's appalling commerical situation"; possible need for new Chair to implement radical new Plan] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Feb 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Shipbuilders' Strategy and Finance") [Corporate Plan: running down merchant shipping; soft credit terms; EC Intervention Fund; offshore/ship repair proposals; 1983-84 financial proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Feb 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Hurd letter to Jenkin ("British Shipbuilders Strategy and Finance") [European Commission: Intervention Fund assistance & loss financing] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Feb 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Robert Atkinson: Monday 14 February at 1445 hours") [transition arrangements for new Chair of British Shipbuilders] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT (objectives for the Chair of British Shipbuilders) [returning BS to private sector & reducing losses; set of draft objectives attached] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to Brittan (British Shipbuilders: loss target for 1983/84) [European Commission concern that "it amounts to an overt admission of intent to finance losses"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Mar 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Patrick Jenkin (draft objectives for the Chair of British Shipbuilders) [privatisation of warshipbuilding; yard closures & redundancies; merchant shipbuilding targets; cost reduction & efficiency programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 May 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Michael Foot letter to MT (prospects for the shipbuilding industry) [proposals for Govt intervention] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 May 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("British Shipbuilders") [draft statement to Parliament in response to company's request for emergency funding] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 May 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Michael Foot MP (prospects for the UK shipbuilding industry) [defence of Government record; comments on Foot's proposals; long-term business plan; threat of industrial action] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 May 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Jenkin minute to MT (objectives for the new Chair of British Shipbuilders) [warship building; report of losses; cost reduction programme; targets] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 May 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Prior letter to Brittan ("Harland and Wolff: 1983/84 Funding and the Blue Star Order") [request for interim funding in order to prevent closure] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 May 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Brittan letter to Prior ("Harland and Wolff") [Brittan unhappy with terms of Blue Star shipbuilding contract: agrees to deal, with two provisos] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Jun 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Parkinson) [Telecommunications Bill; European Steel Council; Restrictive Practices Court; British Shipbuilders; trade figures; Atlantic Conveyor] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Jun 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Nationalised Industries: Department of Trade & Industry briefing for MT (British Shipbuilders) [background note & lines to take on recent poor performance] [declassified Jan 2014]
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