The Plowden Report on the Aircraft Industry

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The Plowden Report on the Aircraft Industry

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Location

Belfast, Short's

Year

1965

Date

Production 16/12/1965

Length

02min 13sec

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 reports on the release of the Plowden Committee Report. The news is not good for the aircraft industry in Belfast. The issue was the amount of financial support that Shorts had received in the past. The contraction of the industry in Britain as a whole meant that money was no longer going to be available to shore up declining companies such as Shorts. 

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 reports 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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