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BBC North West Regional Documentaries: Record Detail

Accession Number

B34

Series Title

THE TIMES OF THEIR LIVES

Programme Title

LORD STOKES

Producer

Gerald Harrison

Other Credits

Editor: M. Mulliner

Transmission Date

01/01/75

 

colour , mute, 10 mins 56 secs

Synopsis

Programme about the career of Lord Donald Stokes, Chairman and Chief Executive of Leyland Motors Ltd (LM). Opens with shots of Leyland and the LM building exterior. There are stills of factory workers and Leyland lorries. Footage includes a 'Leyland Apprentice Instructor' teaching apprentices, completed lorries, Stokes Hall (LM's Engineering Students Hall of Residence) exterior and the Lord Stokes Thwaites pub exterior. There are stills of Blackpool Tower and seafront and of Lord Stokes on his wedding day interspersed with footage of Blackpool Winter Gardens arcade and couples ballroom dancing. The LM factory interior is shown and a still of an old motor car - "Standard 7 H. P. Model' - is seen. The Standard Motor Company Ltd, Coventry and Lord Stokes' office within are shown. There is a close up of Leyland Motors' 'Queen's Award to Industry', stills and footage of factory workers and Standard assembly line. Film ends with stills of Lord Stokes as a youngster and throughout his career.