Archive

1984 May 2 - 1984 Jul 11
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1164
Aerospace (Possible merger between British Aerospace and Thorn EMI or General Electric Company (GEC))

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 42
Any docs withheld?

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Date Value Title
84 May 2 We Major Aerospace: Tebbit minute to MT ("British Aerospace (BAe)") [Thorn-EMI bid] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 10 Th Major Aerospace: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Tebbit, Lamont) ["Takeover of British Aerospace": Thorn-EMI bid] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 11 Fr Major Aerospace: Tebbit letter to Heseltine ("British Aerospace") [Thorn-EMI takeover bid] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 15 Tu Major Aerospace: Lamont PS letter to No.10 ("British Aerospace") [statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 17 Th Major Aerospace: Lamont letter to MT ("British Aerospace") [GEC takeover bid] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 25 Fr Major Aerospace: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (British Aerospace: GEC takeover bid) ["It may be of use if I set out the line which we have adopted in all approaches from GEC"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 May 25 Fr Major Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Aerospace") ["some thoughts on the Thorn EMI prospective bid... and on the possible interest of GEC"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 1 Fr Major Aerospace: No.10 minute Policy Unit minute to MT ("British Aerospace/Thorn EMI") [MT's concerns about Thorn EMI takeover bid addressed point by point] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 15 Fr Major Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("GEC and BAe") ["The absorption of BAe into a larger grouping is an unmissable opportunity for Government to dispose of its entire shareholding in BAe"; outline of "industrial pros and cons"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 20 We Major Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT ("British Aerospace") [Chairman of Plessey Company's letter to Heseltine regarding proposed GEC takeover of BAe] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jun 28 Th Major Aerospace: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("GEC and British Aerospace") [GEC examining takeover bid; "We suggest that... [MT] might put DTI on notice that she is becoming concerned about the apparent inaction"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jul 11 We Major Aerospace: No.10 minute to MT (Sir Austin Pearce) [failure to meet with Tebbit] [declassified Jan 2014]