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PDF 80 Jul 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 80 Jul 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 80 Aug 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 81 May 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 81 Oct 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 81 Dec 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 81 Dec 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Jenkin letter to Prior ("De Lorean Motor Cars Ltd") [banks refuse further unsecured loans, and Government agrees to provide guarantees] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 82 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 82 Feb 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 minute to MT ("De Lorean Statement") [Prior statement to Parliament on the failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 82 May 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 82 Aug 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior letter to Brittan ("De Lorean Motor Co Ltd (in Receivership)") [MT rules out further Government assistance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Aug 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prior, Jenkin) ["De Lorean Motor Cars Limited"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Aug 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 82 Oct 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 82 Oct 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("De Lorean") [current situation regarding investigation into failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Nov 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) 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]
PDF 82 Dec 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 briefing for MT ("Nicholas Winterton - De Lorean") [Government handling of Winterton's allegations against DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation ("De Lorean") [Michael Havers, Robin Butler: phone conversation about RUC investigation into failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Michael Havers, Ian Gow, Nicholas Winterton MP) [Government handling of Winterton's allegations against DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 82 Dec 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Mr Nicholas Winterton MP and the De Lorean Company") [handling of his allegations of a Government 'cover-up'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Jun 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 1704 to FCO (2135Z) ("Northern Ireland: De Lorean") [accusations from DeLorean lawyers against UK government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Prior PS letter to No.10 ("De Lorean") [publication of Public Accounts Committee report on failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("De Lorean Motor Cars Ltd: possible claim against the auditors, Arthur Andersen & Co") [policy implications of treble damages claim] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Rhodes Boyson letter to Tebbit ("De Lorean: possible writ against Lotus Cars") ["...in connection with money paid to Lotus by DMCL..."; Tebbit: "The balance of national interest seems to me to point strongly against the issue of such a writ"; Treasury seeks assurance from Northern Ireland Office of clear evidence as basis to proceed with litigation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Ireland: Rhodes Boyson PS letter to Biffen PS ("De Lorean: PAC debate") [Public Accounts Committee: take note Motion for Parliament] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tebbit letter to Hurd ("Arthur Andersen") [Government position on using the firm for audit or consultancy work in context of ongoing court case against Andersen over failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Patrick Jenkin request for advice regarding offer of part-time consultancy with Arthur Andersen and Co) [sensitivities owing to ongoing Government court case against the firm over failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Ridley letter to Brittan ("Arthur Andersen and Co") [LRT contract not to be renewed in light of Andersen's involvement in failure of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd; other firms to be invited to tender] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Tom King letter to Brittan ("Legal action against Arthur Andersen and Co (AA)") [Government taking Anderson to court over the firm's role in the collapse of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd] [declassified Dec 2014]
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