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Chamber and committees

Nae Pasaran! Bob’s Engine Returns to East Kilbride

  • Submitted by: Linda Fabiani, East Kilbride, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Monday, 18 November 2019
  • Motion reference: S5M-19919

That the Parliament welcomes that "Bob’s Engine", number 15607, the first of General Pinochet of Chile’s eight engines to be boycotted by the workers at Rolls Royce, East Kilbride in 1974, has been returned to Scotland permanently; thanks Andy Kerr and Stewart McKillop, Chair and Principal respectively of East Kilbride’s South Lanarkshire College for offering the permanent siting of the engine in the college grounds; considers that engine number 15607 is a tribute to East Kilbride’s industrial history and a lasting monument to workers’ solidarity across the world; congratulates trade union activists Bob Fulton, Robert Somerville, John Keenan, Stuart Barrie and their colleagues on their democratic stance in 1974, as well as film-maker Felipe Bustos Sierra for his determination to tell this inspiring story, and wishes the people of Chile well in striving towards a democratic future for their nation.


Supported by: George Adam, Clare Adamson, Tom Arthur, Angela Constance, Annabelle Ewing, Neil Findlay, Jenny Gilruth, Emma Harper, Bill Kidd, Monica Lennon, Richard Lyle, Fulton MacGregor, Rona Mackay, Gillian Martin, John Mason, Joan McAlpine, Gil Paterson, Graham Simpson, Elaine Smith, Stewart Stevenson, David Torrance, Sandra White, Andy Wightman