Tony Benn speaks to Rolls Royce workers, London
Feb. 02, 1971 - Mr. Wedgwood Benn addresses Rolls Royce workers.: Nearly 2, 000 Rolls Royce workers went to the House of Commons yesterday to press MPs to force the Government not to abandon the RB-211 engine project. Earlier more than 1, 000 workers attended a rally at Friends House, Euston, at which Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn made a surprise appearance. Mr. Benn was Minister of Technology when the Labour Government agreed to provide 70 percent launching aid for the RB-211 contract with Lockheed. Photo shows Mr. Wedgwood Benn making an impassioned plea for the retention of the contract for the RB-211 engines for the Lockheed airbus, which he championed as Labour Minister of Technology, when he addressed Rolls Royce workers in London yesterday. They had collected 600 to hire a special train to bring them from Derby
