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1984 Apr 2 - 1985 Mar 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1537
Industrial policy (Future of British Leyland: privatisation of UniPart) (Part 8)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 308
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84 Apr 2 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("British Leyland 1984 Corporate Plan: Leyland Trucks: E(A)(84)19)") [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 15 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Leyland Trucks: The Timing of Announcements") [closure of Bathgate Plant; Jaguar privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Apr 3 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Privatisation of Jaguar (E(A)(84) 18)") [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 15 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("BL 1984 Corporate Plan") [British Leyland, Austin Rover, Unipart and Land Rover privatisations; Leyland Trucks] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 8 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Leyland Trucks") [closure of Bathgate plant; supports Tebbit's position on early announcement] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 16 We Major Industrial Policy: Cockfield minute to MT ("British Leyland Corporate Plan - Need for Additional Finance") [opposes additional finance] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 5 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 ("BL Privatisation") [privatisation of Unipart and Land Rover] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 20 Th Major Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 ("BL") [progress report on British Leyland privatisations: MT: "This won't do. B-L must go as soon as possible"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 20 Th Major Industrial Policy: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 ("Rationalisation of the UK Commercial Vehicle Industry") [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 15 Th Major Industrial Policy: Lamont letter to MT ("Austin Rover (ARG) Strike") [latest developments] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 31 We Major Industrial Policy: Lamont letter to MT ("Austin Rover") [strike action threatened] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 4 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Lamont PS letter to No.10 ("Austin Rover") [organisational changes at Austin Rover; computer-aided design technology] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 9 We Major Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Mr. Tebbit and the Chancellor") [British Leyland corporate plan; Jaguar privatisation; closure of Bathgate plant] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 28 We Major Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Department of Trade & Industry ("BL") [MT concerned at slow progress of British Leyland privatisations] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 25 Mo Major Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Department of Trade & Industry ("British Leyland") [BL privatisations and Corporate Plan] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Jun 20 We Major Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Department of Trade & Industry ("Unipart") [acquisition of Edmunds Walker by Unipart: MT: "I am restricted in what I can say because D.T. is a director of Q[uinton] H[azell]...if I weren't restricted I should be making it quite clear that I am appalled"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 19 Mo Major Industrial Policy: No.10 letter to Lamont PS ("Austin Rover") [use of computer-aided design and manufacture; asks Lamont to discuss with British Leyland to ensure "technological lead" is not "lost to this country"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 11 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("BL Corporate Plan") [privatisation of British Leyland subsidiaries; MT: "DT is director of Q[uinton] H[azell]...I can't enter into discussion of Unipart at all"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 11 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("BL Trucks") [Tebbit and Younger discuss timing of announcement on Leyland Trucks; closure of Bathgate plant] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 4 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("British Leyland Trucks") [closure of Bathgate plant; implications for Scotland] [declassified Dec 2014]