The Future of Harland & Wolff: The Geddes Report

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The Future of Harland & Wolff: The Geddes Report

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Location

Belfast, Havelock House

Year

1966

Date

Production 24/03/1966

Length

03min 37sec

Audio

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

Robin Walsh outlines the Geddes Report on the future of shipbuilding. This Report examined the possibility of amalgamating shipyards but the future of Harland & Wolff still looks insecure. 

Andy Barr comments on the Report and the relationship between the Trade Unions and the management of Harland & Wolff. 

Notes

The Geddes Committee is the name by which the United Kingdom's Shipbuilding Inquiry Committee of 1965-6 was more generally known. It took this name from its chairperson, Reay Geddes, the managing director of Dunlop Rubber.

The Geddes Committee was appointed in February 1965. Their remit was to consider ways to save the shipbuilding industry in the United Kingdom by achieving greater competitiveness through organisational changes and in the methods of production. The Committee was sponsored by the Board of Trade.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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