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Plessey Telephones

Date released

Nov 1969

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

90

NoS ID

327947

Story no

4 / 6

COI synopsis: A British factory where the latest telephones, high-speed automatic exchanges and switchboards are manufactured and assembled for world-wide markets.

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Sit-in at Plessey factory (1977)

Genre

Interview

Interview with unidentified female union spokesman (poss. Lily Allen, electricians’ union) about A sit-in at Plessey telecommunications factory in Kirkby, Merseyside in 03/77. Male interviewer not identified.

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The Business Programme No.12 (1988)

The Business Programme, broadcast on Monday evenings and presented by Rob Thomas. TRACK 1- GEC/Siemens bid for Plessey - Interview. Lord Wynstock talks about this 1.7 billion pound bid. How business has...

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Council refuses Plessey contract - Apartheid link (1983)

Genre

Interview

Tower Hamlets councillor Cosmas Desmond on the council’s decision to refuse Plessey a contract to install a new telephone system at the Town Hall because of the company’s direct involvement with the...

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Lord Young on GEC-Siemens takeover bid for Plessey (1989)

Genre

Interview

Trade and Industry Secretary, Lord Young (David Young) confirms that the joint takeover bid by GEC and Siemens for the Plessey company, which supplies electronics to the Ministry of Defence, will be referred...

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Lord Weinstock on GEC attempt to buy Plessey (1988)

Genre

Interview

Another bitter takeover battle involving two of Britain’s electronics giants is looming in the city. GEC is making another attempt to buy up Plessey, just two years after it was blocked by the Monopoly...

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Leon Brittan on GEC-Siemens takeover bid for Plessey (1989)

Genre

Interview

John Fraser interviews European Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan, who has ordered an inquiry under common market law into the proposed takeover of Plessey by GEC and Siemens. The commissioner argues that the...

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Decision makers (1982)

Genre

Interview; Documentary

Decision Makers: Inner City Jobs, presented by Tom Maddocks on migration to rural areas of individuals and businesses from the inner cities, and knock-on effects of increased unemployment and urban...

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The Business Programme No.30 (1989)

The Business Programme, broadcast on Monday evenings and presented by Rob Thomas. Track 1- Entertainment on IOW. Interview with Mr Crispin Lowe, Managing Director, Ancasta Holdings Ltd, Hamble; interviewed...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.85: Programme 85 of a weekly news and sports review (1988)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 85 Programme 85 of a weekly news and sports review called OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK broadcast by independent radio station OCEAN SOUND on 12th June 1988 by PETE WARDMAN. 00:01-01:20 -...

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