Aircraft Workers March to Stormont

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Aircraft Workers March to Stormont

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Location

Belfast, Stormont

Year

1966

Date

Production 26/01/1966

Length

05min 39sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Hundreds of aircraft workers march to Stormont to protest against any potential closures as a result of the Plowden Report. Robin Walsh speaks to some of the marchers about why they are marching. They feel that the march will make a difference and it is their only means of protest. The workers symbolically wheeled a coffin to Stormont. 

Shorts had been subsidised and supported by the Stormont government, but the Plowden Report marked the beginning of its decline as manufacturing moved to Europe and the Far East.  

Notes

'In 1965, the government released a report into the industry and its future, which became known as the Plowden Report. Among many proposals in this report was the advocation that all future airliner projects were to be undertaken as collaborative ventures with Europe, bar some small aircraft. Many of the report's conclusions were negative and provided a field day for competitors who could seize on the fact that Britain appeared to be abdicating from airliner design and manufacture. It saw no predetermined place for an aircraft industry in Britain and the need to purchase from the United States the most complex of weapons systems.'

Richard Payne, ‘Stuck on the Drawing Board’ (2004)

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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