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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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