Confirming the outline of the leak to the BBC intended to steal the thunder of the Prime Minister’s participation on Friday in the announcement of its plans for a major new investment in Scotland (CI No 1,377), the Motorola European Cellular Subscriber Division said that the digital cellular telephone plant would be at Easter Inch, West Lothian. The company is investing UKP100m, for the biggest single investment in technology manufacture in Scotland, and as well as phones for the pan-European digital cellular system, will make ones for the UK Personal Communications Network services. The company reckons that the initiative could eventually create as many as 2,000 jobs. The company makes analogue cellular phones for Europe and Japan in Stotfield, here, and in Flensberg, West Germany and the company expects continued growth at those operations.
