British Rail engineering scaling down
- Title
- British Rail engineering scaling down
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 15 May 1985
- Year of production
- 1985
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- Duration
- 00:02:48
- Description
- British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) Chairman and Managing director, Philip Norman, explains why the company must lose five thousand jobs. Their Swindon base will be the hardest hit. Swindon works Committee Chairman, Graham Humphries and Alec Ferry of the Engineering and Shipbuilders’ Confederation, comment. Male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Philip Norman; Graham Humphries; Alec Ferry
- Keywords
- Trade unions; Cost reduction; British Rail; Railways; Employment; Railway workers; Engineering; Redundancies; Swindon; BREL
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