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Decline of Rolls Royce Aero (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with businessman Freddie Laker, on the possible demise of the Rolls Royce RB211 engine. He says if the Americans stop buying it, the Rolls Royce Aero engine will go bust and that the British...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Ocean Sound This Week No.38: Programme 38 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 38 Programme 38 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 12 July 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER. TRACK...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Rolls Royce privatisation posibilities (1983)

Genre

Interview

Paul Maurice interviews company Chairman, Sir William Duncan about the issue of whether the aerospace section of Rolls Royce should be privatised. Poor quality audio.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rolls-Royce 80th birthday (1983)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Bob Cartwright about a new book on the history of Rolls-Royce motor cars coinciding with the occasion of the company’s eightieth birthday. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Network (1982)

Genre

Documentary; Drama

Network. Part two of two broadcast today. Peter Wheeler (or Whelan?) narrates Mr Rolls and Mr Royce, written by Barry Hill for Piccadilly Radio, Manchester. The partially dramatised story of Charles Rolls...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

New Rolls Royce engine (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Humphrey Wood, Rolls Royce, on new engine to generate electricity as a sideline to supplying engines for Concorde. Interviewer not identified. Sound level low.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rolls Royce strike (1979)

Genre

Interview

(Rolls Royce employee and/or union representative?), on he and his colleagues being used as political pawns. This, he says, is causing people to take a harder line - strike action will continue indefinitely...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rolls-Royce bribery scandal inquiry (1980)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the aftermath of an inquiry into bribery allegations made by Labour MP Jeff Rooker (18/06/80) against Rolls-Royce executive Frank Turner. Includes interviews with Rolls-Royce Vice-Chairman Ashley...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

James Prior on Rolls Royce dispute (1979)

Genre

Interview

Employment Secretary Jim Prior, on the damage being done to Britain’s engineering industry by industrial action such as the Rolls Royce dispute. Prior considers government intervention inappropriate: these...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Rolls Royce aviation (1978)

Genre

Speech

A speaker (possibly Eric Varley) states the advantages of the new Rolls Royce engine which the British will build for use in the aerospace industry, which could create many jobs and bring vast amounts of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio