IL: new deal planned?
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IL GOVERNMENT was week looking for a way satisfying demand for Land ver to remain in British ttrol while involving the ancial muscle of General ttors.
Re special Cabinet comae*: considering the sale off Leyland Trucks and Land Ver was expected to meet Thursday to consider the isible options open to the .veniment.
rrade and Industry Secrey Paul Channon met the ee British bidders for Land vet. the BL management V Out led by David An Lonhro and AsTling
Ba 10 rd on Monday. follos% mg a meeting last week with General Motors.
GM still insists that it wants to buy I.and Rover as well as Leyland Trucks and that it might lose interest in the hirry division if it is not allowed to buy land Rover.
But Ministers accept that a straight sale of Land Rover to GM would he politically impossible and are looking for a (70111prornise package. One possibility may he a minority GM shareholding in Land Rover.
Despite all the fuss about Land Rover, which includes Freight Rover, there is little political protest facing the Government over the sale of Leyland Trucks to GM.
• Laird. which wants to buy Leyland Bus and merge it with Metro-Cammell Weymann. has surprised the industry by saying it wants to keep the Leyland Farington plant (which employs most workers and makes Tiger coach chassis and export buses) rather than the automated plant at Workington.
According to Laird chief executive John Gardiner, it has no use for either Workington or Eastern Coach Works at Lowestoft.
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