[2] The plan was in response to the company’s announcement that thousands of jobs were to be cut to enable industrial restructuring in the face of technological change and international competition.
[4] The workers, including Ernie Scarbrow (Combine Secretary), Phil Asquith,[5] Brian Salisbury, Mick Cooney, Danny Conroy, Mike Cooley, Ron Mills, Bob Dodd, John Routley and Terry Moran, argued that state support would be better used developing socially useful products and production than supplying military contracts.
[9] The Plan also included outlines to re-organise the workforce into teams combining the workers' shop floor tacit knowledge with theoretical engineering from the designers.
[14] The event was "The Lucas Plan and the New Economics" meeting organised by The World Transformed (a four-day politics, arts and music festival running alongside the Labour Party Conference).
A large part of the archive is in relation to The Lucas Plan, and the various correspondences made between different parties about this in the 1970’s and includes photographs, letters (both typed and hand-written), newspaper articles, and posters.