A Tyne Tees Television Newsview report with Tony Bradley on expansion plans for the Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) telecommunications works in West Hartlepool. Standing in a field Tyne Tees reporter Tony Bradley provides details on a two year battle the town of West Hartlepool has fought ‘against the spectral shadow of the dole queue’ with twenty new industries being brough to the town. The exterior of the telecommunications factory for Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) at...

A Tyne Tees Television Newsview report with Tony Bradley on expansion plans for the Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) telecommunications works in West Hartlepool. Standing in a field Tyne Tees reporter Tony Bradley provides details on a two year battle the town of West Hartlepool has fought ‘against the spectral shadow of the dole queue’ with twenty new industries being brough to the town. The exterior of the telecommunications factory for Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) at Hartlepool with Tony Bradley explaining that a planned expansion of the works will see an additional 500 people employed. Interview with Managing Director, Dr John Orlington about the expansion, why it was decided and about the 1.5m pounds that will be brought into the Hartlepool economy. Dr Orlington is also asked what percentage of the workforce is female, ¾ he explains. He is also asked about expansion plans at another AEI works at Birtley on Tyneside which will see the numbers employed there rise from 850 to around 15-1600 by the end of the year.