1985 Apr 30 - 1985 Dec 10
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/1415
Aerospace (Westland Helicopters) (Part 1A)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2014 Dec 30 |
| Classification: | Secret |
| Page count: | 205 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
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| 85 Dec 4 We | Major | Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (‘Westland’) [defends European approach] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 9 Mo | Major | Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (‘Westland’) [relative merits of proposals; no MOD market for Blackhawks] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 30 Tu | Major | Westland: Heseltine minute for MT (“Westland Helicopters”) [company difficulties; Bristow bid] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 10 Tu | Major | Westland: MOD record of conversation (Heseltine-Cuckney) [rival bids] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 17 Th | Major | Westland: MODUK telegram to UKE Bonn (Heseltine-Woerner conversation) [Sikorsky threat to European helicopter industry] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 22 Mo | Major | Westland: MT letter to Zambian President Kaunda (Westland) [rejects his proposal to use aid funds to sell W30 helicopters to Zambia] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 8 Mo | Major | Westland: No.10 letter to DTI (Westland) [MT notes case against Marmon takeover, but “believes that a different American offer would have to be judged on its merits”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 7 Mo | Major | Westland: No.10 letter to DTI (‘Westland’) [MT thinks if Indian deal falls through “not necessarily a bad thing to allow the company to go into receivership”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 5 Fr | Major | Westland: No.10 Policy Unit minute for MT (‘Westlands’) [treat as a commercial issue, in which the Government need not become involved] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 19 We | Key | Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [if Bristow withdraws, encourage creditors to instal new management] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 18 Tu | Key | Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [late night crisis meeting] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 6 Fr | Key | Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Heseltine, Tebbit, Lawson] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 5 Th | Major | Westland: No.10 record of conversation (‘Westland’) [MT, Whitelaw, Brittan, Heseltine, Tebbit, Lawson] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Dec 4 We | Major | Westland: Policy Unit minute for Charles Powell (‘Westland’) [“Heseltine’s shotgun marriage of the European helicopter industry echoes Harold Wilson’s … of the motor industry”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Oct 7 Mo | Major | Westland: Tebbit letter to Brittan (‘Westland’) [suspects European solution “may well owe more to an effort to keep Westland out of Sikorsky’s hands than to offer a lifeline to Westland”] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jul 1 Mo | Major | Westland: Tebbit letter to Heseltine (‘Westland’) [approach from US group; does not find American ownership welcome, but may be no alternative] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 13 Th | Major | Westland: Tebbit letter to Heseltine (“Westlands ”) [Bristow may drop bid unless government helps more] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 18 Tu | Major | Westland: Tebbit letter to Westland chairman (DTI conversations with Bristow) [offers made to Bristow; launch aid issue] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Apr 30 Tu | Major | Westland: Tebbit minute for MT (“Westland Helicopters”) [less sanguine than Heseltine] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 85 Jun 18 Tu | Major | Westland: Treasury letter to DTI (“Westland”) [protest at DTI failure to warn Treasury in time for crisis meeting] [declassified Dec 2014] |