Roy Mason on Shipbuilding

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Roy Mason on Shipbuilding

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Location

Harland & Wolff shipyard

Year

1965

Date

Production 02/04/1965

Length

06min 24sec

Audio

mute, sound

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

MP and Minister of the Board of Trade, Roy Mason, talks to Jimmy Robinson about the decline of the shipbuilding industry in Britain in light of foreign output, specifically in Germany and Japan. This competition meant a re-examination of the entire industry. Mr Mason also felt management needed to talk to the workers more. 

Notes

Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC, DL (18 April 1924 – 19 April 2015), was a British Labour politician. He came from a mining background in Barnsley, and became  a Cabinet minister who was Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the 1970s. 

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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