§ Mr. Thorneasked the Secretary of State for Industry when he expects to meet the Confederation and Shipbuilding Engineering Unions for further talks regarding organisation, production, sales and other major subjects involving the future of the British aircraft industry.
§ Mr. KaufmanI have been in touch with the CSEU and offered to meet the
Equity and Preference Shares Held Disposal Date The Hoffman Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Note 1) 4,800,000 Ordinary Shares of 25p Ransome & Manes Bearing Co. May 1969 The Nuclear Power Group Ltd. 150,000 Ordinary Shares of £1 Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd. and Head Wrightson & Co. Ltd. March 1971 Ransome Hoffmann Pollard Ltd. 155,000 Ordinary Shares of 25p Institutional investors August 1971 The Laird Group 4,900,830 Ordinary Shares of 25p Securities Agencies Ltd. November 1971 Ransome Hoffmann Pollard Ltd. (Note 1) 1,200,000 Deferred Ordinary Shares of 25p Institutional investors December 1971 Chrysler United Kingdom Ltd. 7,561,1407% Cumulative Preferred Ordinary Shares of 20p Chrysler UK Ltd. January 1972 Herbert Ingersoll Ltd. 38,250 "A" Ordinary Shares of 50p Alfred Herbert Ltd. March 1973 36,750 "B" Ordinary Shares of 50p Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. July 1973 Brown Bayley Steels Ltd. (Note 1) 2,404,000 Ordinary Shares of 50p Dunford & Elliott Ltd. December 1973 Kearney & Trecker Ltd. 300,000 Redeemable Convertible Third Preference Shares of £1 Kearney & Trecker Marwin Ltd. (Note 2) August 1974 George Kent Ltd. 4,261,757 Ordinary Shares of 50p Brown Boveri Ltd December 1974 British Nuclear Design and Construction Ltd. 260,000 Ordinary Shares of £1 National Nuclear Corporation Ltd. March 1975 Saxondale Motors Ltd. (Note 3) (formerly Brown Bayley Ltd.) 2,400,000 Ordinary Shares of £1 Members Voluntary Liquidation June 1975 Nuclear Enterprises Ltd. 7,353 "B" Ordinary Shares of £1 Still held by Department of Industry Notes: 1. Investments held by Brown Bayley Ltd. 2. 65,000 shares were redeemed by K. & T.M. Ltd. The balance is still held by the Department of Industry. 3. Name chanced on 17th May 1974.