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1981 Jun 16 - 1984 Jan 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1398
Transport (Merger of British Rail Hovercraft and Hoverlloyd (hovercraft operators) to form Hoverspeed in 1981; financial difficulties of Hoverspeed)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 34
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Date Value Title
81 Jul 3 Fr Major Transport: MT letter to Jonathan Aitken MP (merger between British Rail Hovercraft and Hoverlloyd) ["You asked me in the House... [if] I would use my influence to ensure that the merger was delayed no further"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 4 Th Major Transport: Howell letter to Lord Cockfield (Hoverspeed ferry company) [cash flow problems: BR guarantee] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 21 Tu Major Transport: Howell letter to Lord Cockfield (Hoverspeed ferry company) [cash flow problems: BR guarantee] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 26 Th Major Transport: Ridley minute to MT (Hoverspeed ferry company receivership) ["if the company closes there will, regretfully, be a loss of some 600 jobs... [but] privatised companies must stand or fall by their own efforts"] [declassified Jan 2014]