Max Evidence 26 WG THALES to Wales ABElectcs20Nov'12
Welsh government welcomes THALES to Wales
Thales UK is a leading arms
company, including in nuclear weapons.
Ieuan Wyn Jones in 2010
welcomed their new centre in Llangennech near Llanelli, where they were
equipping ‘Warthog’ tracked military vehicles destined for
Afghanistan
The Minister said “The significant contract awarded to AB Connectors is excellent news as it has already created 40 new
jobs and opens the door for potentially more business."
Thales
is equipping the Warthog vehicles with over £150m worth of communications
systems, specialist counter-measure equipment and extra protective armour.
The March 2012 'Vision of Humanity' report: http://www.visionofhumanity.org/info-center/financing-nuclear-weapons/ gives Thales, Serco etc heading a list of the top 20
nuclear weapons producers.
Link with Abercynon company
AB Connectors
is an Abercynon company that moved in 1996 into manufacture of military
electronic components. They were in the news recently (18 October
2012) when their owners TT
Electronics announced up to 45 redundancies out of the 193 current employees (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/south-wales-news/cynon-valley/2012/10/18/quarter-of-staff-at-ab-connectors-abercynon-face-the-axe-91466-32043981/). This states AB Components “manufacture complex electronic connectors and systems for
aerospace, defence and rail projects”.
Pippa Bartalotti recently told of working in a
company Encrypta which supplied electronic security devices.
I worked in the Glastonbury sheepskin industry in 1973 – 5, then the fashion business in the West End of London 1975-1986… I then started Encrypta Electronics (employing 25 people and sub contracting to AB Electronics among other local businesses) and moved to South Wales.
I worked in the Glastonbury sheepskin industry in 1973 – 5, then the fashion business in the West End of London 1975-1986… I then started Encrypta Electronics (employing 25 people and sub contracting to AB Electronics among other local businesses) and moved to South Wales.
Can Pippa disclose more about Encrypta’s sub-contract with AB
Electronics/Components? She is recorded
as Director & manager of the company from April 1992, Did their contract continue after Encrypta
went bankrupt in 2003? She was also
involved in Toucan systems, 2001-2003: “In my time the company made one replacement keyboard for
Thales”. Might they also be a past or
current supplier of military components?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Max
Wallis 20 Nov. 2012
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