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1982 Jul 19 - 1983 Jun 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1324
Nationalised industries (Shipbuilding policy; prospects for British Shipbuilders) (Part 4)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 256
Themes: Defence (general), Defence (Falklands), Northern Ireland, Privatized & state industries, Trade unions

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Date Value Title
82 Jul 21 We Major 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]
82 Jul 23 Fr Major 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]
82 Jul 23 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Jenkin minute to MT ("Cunard/ACL Order") [Government subsidy] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Jul 26 Mo Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Jenkin, Nott, Tebbit) ["Cunard Order"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Jul 27 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: Prior letter to Hurd (soft credit and third party guarantees for shipbuilding) [legal considerations] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Jul 27 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Patrick Jenkin, Brian Mower, Trades Union Congress delegation) ["Atlantic Conveyor "Replacement""] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Jul 27 Tu Major Nationalised Industries: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Jenkin, Cockfield, Nott, Lamont, Mumford, Robert Atkinson, John Parker) ["Cunard/ACL Order"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Jul 27 Tu Major 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]
82 Aug 4 We Major 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]
82 Sep 30 Th Major 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]
82 Oct 8 Fr Major 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]
82 Oct 13 We Major 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]
82 Oct 21 Th Major Nationalised Industries: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("Harland & Wolff: publication of accounts") [measures being taken to address losses] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Oct 28 Th Major 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]
82 Nov 4 Th Major 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]
82 Nov 15 Mo Minor Nationalised Industries: Conservative Research Department briefing (British Shipbuilders Bill: 2nd Reading, 17 November 1982) [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 25 Th Major Nationalised Industries: MT letter to Chair of British Shipbuilders (depreciation allowances) ["serious drawbacks... to the kind of restrictions you have proposed"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 24 Fr Major Nationalised Industries: Lamont letter to MT (British Shipbuilders: sale of shipyards) [potential buyers] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 2 We Major 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]
83 Feb 8 Tu Major 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]