Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977
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The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 nationalised large parts of the UK aerospace and shipbuilding industries and established two corporations, British Aerospace and British Shipbuilders.
The bill was rejected by the House of Lords on three separate occasions. It was possible that the provisions of the Parliament Acts could have been employed to enact it, but the legislation was approved by the House of Lords following concessions by the government.
[edit] List of assets subsumed by British Aerospace
[edit] List of assets subsumed by British Shipbuilders
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- Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Troon (acquired in 1978, merged with Ferguson Shipbuilders to form Ferguson-Ailsa in 1981, assets later transferred to Scott Lithgow)
- Cammell Laird and Company, Birkenhead
- Ferguson Shipbuilders, Port Glasgow (merged with Ailsa in 1981 to form Ferguson-Ailsa)
- Govan Shipbuilders, Govan
- Northwestern Ship Repairers and Shipbuilding Limited (NSL), Merseyside
- Willian Doxford and Sons, Pallion
- Scott Lithgow, Greenock
- Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Limited , Wallsend (later renamed Swan Hunter)
- Vickers Limited Shipbuilding Group, Barrow in Furness (renamed Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Limited - VSEL)
- Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston and Portsmouth
- Yarrow Shipbuilders (YSL), Scotstoun
- Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn
- John Readhead and Sons, South Shields
- Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company, Wallsend
- John Brown & Company, Clydebank
- Harland and Wolff, Belfast (nationalised but outwith the management of British Shipbuilders)
- Smiths Dock Company, Middlesbrough
