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1986 May 1 - 1986 Dec 16
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1802
Industrial policy (Future of British Leyland) (Part 11)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 239
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86 Mar 11 Tu Major Industrial Policy: Managing Partner of Schroder Ventures letter to Channon ("Land Rover") [case for management buyout] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 11 Tu Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL") [response to MT's queries about financing of capital expenditure programme & sales figures] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 12 We Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Future of Land Rover Leyland") [GM offer/negotiations; background papers; alternative proposals] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 12 We Major Industrial Policy: Channon letter to Chairman of Land Rover Group (future of Land Rover Leyland) [response to management buyout consortium's proposition] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 12 We Major Industrial Policy: Channon letter to David Steel MP (future of Land Rover) [handling of bids; workforce concerns; history of GM/BL talks] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 12 We Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("BL") [Land Rover sale: GM options; management buyout precedents; agenda for MISC 126] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 13 Th Major Industrial Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Line for Use After MISC 126") [sale of Land Rover] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 17 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Future of Land Rover Leyland") ["MISC 126 is meeting... to hear an oral report from [Channon]... on his negotiations with GM and the options now opened to the Government"] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 17 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("BL") [basis for negotiations with GM] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 17 Mo Major Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("BL") [lines to take for Committee and media] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 17 Mo Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("MISC 126") ["possibility of GM taking a minority holding in Land Rover... is good news"; terms of share issue] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 17 Mo Major Industrial Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS note to No.10 (future of Land Rover Leyland) [Bannock & Partners Ltd. letter to Lawson: "It is not a question of being anti-American... [GM] cannot exploit its full potential"] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 18 Tu Major Industrial Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("B.L.") [meeting of key Ministers to discuss Government's response to GM's insistence on guaranteed management & shareholder control within defined period] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 18 Tu Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Land Rover") [stand-off with GM over owenership & management control; proposed next steps] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 19 We Minor Industrial Policy: Director of the British Management Data Foundation letter to Channon ("Land Rover - Management Buy Out") [letter of support] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 19 We Major Industrial Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Tebbit, Ridley, Channon, Wakeham) ["BL": negotiations with GM; options; presentational handling of sale to GM] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 19 We Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to David Norgrove ("Land Rover Management Buy-Out") [Finance Directors not participating] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 19 We Major Industrial Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("GM Talks") [thoughts in advance of MISC126 meeting] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 20 Th Major Industrial Policy: Fowler minute to MT (Land Rover Leyland: proposed management buy-out) [key points, following meeting with head of management buy-out team] [released Dec 2014]
86 Mar 20 Th Major Industrial Policy: Ingham minute to MT ("British Leyland - Presentation") [case for prolonging negotiations with GM in order to postpone takeover; media handling in event of successful management buy-out] [released Dec 2014]