- Target:
- Brighton and Hove city council
- Region:
- United Kingdom
The EDO factory on Home Farm Road in Brighton has been part of ITT Corporation (www.itt.com), since December 2007.
Before ITT took over the factory was known as EDO MBM, a trading unit of the EDO Corporation, another US company which acquired EDO MBM in 2003 and was bought by ITT in 2007. Prior to that the factory was owned by the Emblem Group, a British company.
ITT stands for International Telegraph and Telecom. The company was established in 1920 and diversified to weapons production in the 1930s when it acquired the German Focke-Wulf company who were a manufacturer of aircraft for the Nazi Luftwaffe. It is now the 19th largest defence manufacturer in the world.
EDO's military products include bomb racks, release clips and arming mechanisms for warplanes. They have contracts with the UK Ministry of 'Defence' and US arms giant Raytheon relating to the release mechanisms of the Paveway bomb system.
We, the undersigned, being aware of the evidence of alleged criminal activity which was disclosed in open court during the trial of the EDO decommissioners at Hove Crown Court in May and June of this year, call on Brighton & Hove City Council to investigate the activities of EDO at their Brighton factory.
You, as a council, own the land, Home Farm Business Park, on which the factory stands and receive rent and council tax as a result of the factory’s existence and activity. You ought not to continue to condone and profit from the activities of that factory, without first ascertaining that those activities are not, as has been alleged, illegal.
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