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91 Ibid.
92 Ibid, 6.
93 Elliot, “Tyres sector working party,” (Secretary’s meeting notes) 23.
94 Ibid, 22.
95 Ibid, 25. Under the Conservative Government of 1962-64 public officials sitting on the EDCs were in a junior role. However,
the Labour Government of 1964-69 used the public officials to press government policies (Shonfield, Modern Capitalism, 174).
96 NEDO/RP/IS (79) 3 rd Meeting, Rubber Process Sector Working Party, 30 August 1979, para 5.2.
97 Wilks, Industrial Policy, 188 and 277.
98 SRI, Prospects and Opportunities.
99 NEDO/TI (81) 3, “The future of the UK tyre industry,” Tyre Industry Sector Working Party, 30 January 1981.
100 NEDO/TI (80) 38, “Forecasts of markets and manpower requirements,” Tyre Industry Sector Working Party, 29 October 1980.
101 NEDO/TI (81) 4, 30 April 1981. The BRMA did confirm that members would discuss the strategy papers at the next SWP
meeting.
102 Grant, Political Economy, 65.
103 Stout, “Deindustrialisation,” 195.
104 Stout, “Deindustrialisation,” 194.
105 Wilks, Industrial Policy, 266.
106 Ibid, 269.
107 Grant, Political Economy, 65.
108 Ibid, 66.
109 NEDO, State and Progress, 3.
110 Imberg and Northcott, Investment Policy, 8.
111 Ibid.
112 The SWP did lobby government for anti-dumping action against East European imports and a new tyre-tread law.
113 Ibid, 8-9.
114 Driver, “Import substitution,” 173.
115 NEDO, Annual Report 1978-79: 10.
116 Grant, Political Economy, 68.
117 Balogh, “Comment on Stout,” 201.
118 Kirby, “Supply-side management,” 255.