TRISTAR SALES AS DEADLINE NEARS

lieries, production methods became highly mechanized and ing new skills and by co- the miners responded by learn- THREE production models penalties. operating with the NCB in the the Rolls-Royce RB211 eng were on their way across said. Lockher :d is under contract to Atlantic last night bound begin del ivering completed and JOBS STRIKE Lockheed Aviation's plant airworthy TriStars to customers by April 15.

Palmdale, California. Getting the plane into service BY TASS The 42,000-pound-thrust en- is just the start or the company s problems, however. They must gines will power the TriStar Airbus due to be delivered in sell about 260 planes before the project "breaks even'. So far late March to Lockheed's first A STRIKE of 102 technical and customer, Eastern Air Lines. Lockheed has 104 firm orders supervisory staff of the engineers' and 50 options to buy. unions (TASS) is continuing at If all goes well, delivery will The last firm order was won in Fenner's, the Hull Engineering be just within the deadline set tually all the us airlines with November last and virfirm. The men are striking between. Rolls and Lockheed against 28 declared redundancies. when their contract was re- the exception of TWA and The men claim that redundan- negotiated following Rolls' bank- Braniff are already signed either cies are being used as a cover ruptcy ten months ago. for the TriStar or for one of its to victimize leading union mem- two competitors. bers. Three: of the TASS com- The three engines have yet This makes Haughton's present mittee are included in the 28. to pass the stringent certification visit to London vital. He is deep In addition, Fenner's man- tests, though Lockheed chairman in sales talks with Britain's two agement refuse to recognize Daniel P. Haughton said in Lon- nationalized airlines, BEA and TASS as representing anything don yesterday he did not antici- BOAC. But so far the airlines other than the draughtsmen. pate any problems with certifica- seem in no hurry to make up This follows a further redun- their minds. dancy of a skilled painter who Lockheed's special reduced was reinstated only after a walk- If they fail the tests, Rolls price offer to sell six TriStars to out by Fenner's engineers. could be liable to financial BEA runs out at the end of this penalties, but Haughton said he The TASS strikers are now month, but the customers have seeking to bring the engineers did not think it would come to still not decided to buy. out in support. that. 'I don't want to collect any They will face a stiff rise if they don't buy.

LAITIENEW'S WEAN HER Lockheed is applying Federal Price Board for a 5-percent increase on the present DESK AT TOET AND A feet of cars then took the basic £15m tag for TriStar. 2000 two sides to Downing St. Haughton also outlined costly TUC general secretary Victor version of the plane, with a new plans for a 'stretched' Feather and CBI chief Campbell Adamson were also taken to No range boosted from the present 3,200 nautical miles to 4,000. i: We are just going over to No Miners' leaders and Coal Board The new version (the Lockchiefs went to Downing St for a 10 to see what events are heed 1011-2) would cost an extra meeting with premier Heath as transpiring there,' said Feather. £50m to develop. It would turn peace talks teetered on the edge NCB chairman Derek Ezra TriStar from a trans-continental of a breakdown. said as his team were leaving into an inter-continental passenThe miners' executive meeting the DofE: ger aircraft, he said. at the DofE had been split 13- 'We really must. settle this. The European airbus and the 12 in favour of rejecting That's all 1 can say now. It Douglas DCIO, both of which the Wilberforce recommendations could be a long night.' are in competition with TriStar, and demanding the extra £l. Press Association's Political have longer range than Meanwhile, the Prime Minis- Correspondent says that at this the present Lockheed production ter called a Cabinet meeting to stage there is no indication model. discuss the pay talks after the miners had earlier rejected the itive to communicate - OI whether Carr had anything defin- Financing the Mark 2 TriStar recommendations of the Wilber- whether the Cabinet is having could pose a problem, too. Lockforce Inquiry into the dispute. an interim report on the peace heed has already worked its way Employment Secretary Robert talks. through more than $100m of the Carr left the miners and Coal $250m loan guaranteed by ConBoard representatives at the gress last summer. Department of the Employment The remaining money will not to report to Heath. Ree Published wy porkers Press. be available to develop the He arrived five minutes after 186a High Street, London, 'stretched' TriStar without the Cabinet had assembled. SW4 7UG. specific permission from the Printed by Plough Press Ltd. , (TU). bankers and the loan guarantee 180b Clapham • High Street, London, SW4 7UG. board.