Papers of M H F Wilkins: papers relating to plans for the conversion of Lucas Aerospace from armaments manufacture to civilian products

Papers relating to the Lucas Aerospace Corporate plan, a worker and trade union led strategy to avoid workforce layoffs at Lucas Aerospace, Birmingham, by converting production from armaments to civilian products, 1976-1980. File includes: typescript article, ‘New technologies: whose right to chose?’ by Mike Cooley, activist in the formulation of the Lucas corporate plan; copy of newsletter ‘The right to useful work’, special supplement of Voice of the Unions, [1978]; photographs of prototype road-rail hybrid vehicle and electric power pack for cars and light vehicles sent to Maurice Wilkins. Also manuscript notes for a speech by Wilkins, 1981, with reference to the sacking of Cooley and the merits of the plans.

1978-1981

1 file

Available at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

The original material is held at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.