Norman Kipping
 Norman Kipping      ( electrical engineer, businessman) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 11 May 1901 | |||||||||||||
| Died | 29 June 1979 (Age 78) | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||
Director-General of the Federation of British Industries from 1946 to 1965. Supported British entry into the EEC. Attended Bilderberg/1959.
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Sir Norman Victor Kipping was a British electrical engineer and industrialist. He was Director-General of the Federation of British Industries (FBI) from 1946 to 1965.[1] He supported British entry into the EEC.
Career
Kipping was a qualified engineer, who over twenty years gradually worked his way to a management post, first with the International Western Electric Company and then with Standard Telephone and Cables. In the spring of 1942, during a wartime national reorganization designed to resolve industrial production shortfalls, Kipping found himself seconded to government service. He was placed in control of the Regional Division of the Ministry of Production until the end of the war. He worked at the Board of Trade to assist with demobilization, before joining the FBI.[2]
He was also a Director and later Chairman of British Overseas Fairs Ltd. He retired in 1965.
Kipping's interests included the Anglo-American Council on Productivity and the Dollar Exports Board. He travelled extensively, representing British industry for the FBI and briefly for the Confederation of British Industry.[3]
In 1963 he said "that we had much to contribute and much to gain by joining the European Economic Community".[4]
He was Chairman of the Southern Rhodesia Currency Board in 1965.[5] In 1965 the British government took over the Reserve Bank of Rhodesia in an attempt to remove Rhodesian assets from the control of the Ian Douglas Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, the Governor and Board were suspended and Sir Sydney Caine was appointed the new Governor and new directors included Lord Harcourt, Lord Poole, Siegmund Warburg, Sir Norman Kipping and Sir Gordon Munro.[6]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1959 | 18 September 1959 | 20 September 1959 | Turkey Yesilkoy | The 8th Bilderberg and the first in Turkey. 60 guests. |
References
- ↑ https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/FBI/DG/3
- ↑ https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/77664/1/CHP094.pdf
- ↑ https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/FBI/DG/3
- ↑ https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1963-03-06/debates/cbb93e45-5cc0-40a7-8aa8-956fded698c0/ConsequencesOfBreakdownOfBrusselsNegotiations
- ↑ https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1965-12-14/debates/4a6ae756-bd2e-41a2-ab3f-fb111d470a43/Rhodesia
- ↑ https://archives.lse.ac.uk/records/WARBURG/9/27
