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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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Date Value Title
84 Sep 17 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Redwood minute to Young (British Leyland privatisations) [asks Young to chase Tebbit on progress] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 5 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to No.10 ("BL - Who Should Drive?") [letter from Austin Bide of British Leyland; Corporate Plan; privatisations] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 22 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Warry minute to No.10 ("Jaguar Cars: Pay Claim") [strike action threatened] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Oct 31 We Major Industrial Policy: Lamont letter to MT ("Austin Rover") [strike action threatened] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 15 Th Major Industrial Policy: Lamont letter to MT ("Austin Rover (ARG) Strike") [latest developments] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Nov 16 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Redwood minute to No.10 (British Leyland Corporate Plan: response to letter from Austin Bide) [Lamont's letter "covers the ground in a workmanlike but ponderous manner"] [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 Nov 23 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Warry minute to No.10 ("Unipart") [Unipart acquisition of Motorist Discount Centres; "valuable diversification...in advance of privatisation"] [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]
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 Dec 5 We Major Industrial Policy: Warry minute to No.10 ("Unipart") [proposed acquisition of Motorist Discount Centres by Unipart] [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 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: Warry minute to MT ("BL 1985 Corporate Plan") ["far from being nearer a viable business or closer to privatisation, we in fact seem to be moving further away"] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 20 Th Major Industrial Policy: Warry minute to MT ("Unipart") [response to British Leyland Board failure to pursue privatisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 25 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Tebbit minute to MT ("Land Rover-Leyland") [privatisation of Leyland Trucks and Land Rover; issue of foreign ownership] [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]
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]
85 Mar 29 Fr Major Industrial Policy: Professor S.K. Bhattacharyya letter to MT (Austin Rover Group 1985 Corporate Plan) ["I do not feel that ARG can look forward to a financially viable future with the present senior management team"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 29 Fr Major Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Meeting on British Leyland: 1530 on Monday, 1 April") [BL privatisations and Corporate Plan] [declassified Dec 2014]