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1980 Jul 1 - 1986 Jan 21
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1813
Ireland (DeLorean sports cars) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 310
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80 Jul 25 Fri Ireland: Atkins letter to Keith Joseph ("De Lorean sports car project") ["...the Company would actually collapse by about the end of August unless extra funds are forthcoming..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Jul 29 Tue Ireland: Biffen minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: claim on the contingency reserve") ["The Secretary of State's claim includes additonal finance of £19 million for the De Lorean car project..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Aug 5 Tue Ireland: No.10 letter to Keith Joseph PS (De Lorean Motor Cars Ltd) [MT insists that further Government financial assistance be provided only on a written condition that no additional financial assistance will be provided subsequently] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Feb 6 Fri Ireland: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("De Lorean") [MT unhappily agrees to Government providing security for further borrowing by DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 May 20 Wed Ireland: Atkins minute to MT ("De Lorean") [MT agrees reluctantly to Government providing security for further borrowing, despite having previously determined not to, on basis of the company's business being affected by IRA-inspired civil disorder] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Oct 28 Wed Ireland: No.10 minute: Pattison to Whitmore ("De Lorean") [summary of the steps taken within No.10 when informed by Nicholas Winterton MP of a "...possible commercial scandal... liable to break publicly in the very near future"] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Dec 10 Thu Ireland: Prior letter to Jenkin ("De Lorean Motor Cars Limited") [MT agrees to let E(EA) committee decide on Prior proposal to extend Government guarantees for further DeLorean commercial borrowing] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Dec 18 Fri Ireland: Jenkin letter to Prior ("De Lorean Motor Cars Ltd") [banks refuse further unsecured loans, and Government agrees to provide guarantees] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Feb 16 Tue Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("De Lorean") [DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd to go into receivership; MT unconvinced by proposed scheme to keep the manufacturing plant in business] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Feb 19 Fri Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 (De Lorean Motor Cars Ltd) ["...statement which Mr De Lorean appears to have made at Heathrow today that "the Government has effectively wiped out £70m worth of debts"] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Feb 19 Fri Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("De Lorean Statement") [Prior statement to Parliament on the failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Apr 27 Tue Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("De Lorean") ["...events have taken an unexpected course which led the Receivers to change their plans for a cessation of production..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 May 21 Fri Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("De Lorean") ["...the Receivers have continued their efforts to find a way forward for the Company"] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Aug 2 Mon Ireland: Prior letter to Brittan ("De Lorean Motor Co Ltd (in Receivership)") [MT rules out further Government assistance] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Aug 10 Tue Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prior, Jenkin) ["De Lorean Motor Cars Limited"] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Aug 10 Tue Ireland: Jenkin minute to MT ("De Lorean") ["The Ministerial Sub-Committee on Economic Affairs... was unable to reach agreement this morning on the future of [DeLorean Motor Cars Limited]... refer the matter to you for decision"] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Oct 27 Wed Ireland: MT letter to Chairman of the DeLorean Suppliers Consortium ("De Lorean") ["I do of course appreciate the position in which unsecured creditors of the company have been placed but I cannot see that the Government should, in effect, subsidise their losses..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Oct 29 Fri Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("De Lorean") [current situation regarding investigation into failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Nov 18 Thu Ireland: Adam Butler PS letter to No.10 (statement to Parliament on the affairs of Delorean Motor Cars Ltd) [findings of Receivership enquiries referred to RUC] [declassified Dec 2014]
82 Dec 9 Thu Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Nicholas Winterton - De Lorean") [Government handling of Winterton's allegations against DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]