Archive

Large scale document archive

1981 Feb 17 - 1981 Apr 6
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/549
Nationalised industries (Prospects for the steel industry; British Steel Corporation (BSC) corporate plan; overlap between BSC and private sector; rationalisation of the UK engineering steel making facilities) (Part 9)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2011 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 245
Any docs withheld?

PREM19/549 - download whole file (PDF, 138.2 MB)

Selections from this file

Showing items 21 - 23 of 23

Items per page
Date Valuesort ascending Title
81 Mar 19 Th Major Steel: MT letter to BSC Chairman Ian MacGregor (proposed closure of Distington ingot mould foundry) ["I personally should welcome your own confirmation that you yourself have total confidence in the Corporation's assessment which led to the decision to close Distington"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 26 Th Major Steel: Joseph minute to MT ("Phoenix II - Hadfields") [MT: Closure of Hadfields "will lead to great political trouble because the Hadfields men did not strike when BSC did and it is the Hadfields men who will be made redundant"] [declassified 2011]
81 Mar 27 Fr Major Steel: Department of Industry letter to No.10 ("Financial Times Article About BSC and Consett Engineering Ltd (GEL)") [allegation that BSC is hampering CEL's efforts to create new jobs in Consett] [declassified 2011]