31.   The Action Games and Toy trade name was sold to an American firm shortly after the company went into receivership.

32.   Coun Jim Skinner said if the companies went ahead with the boycott there would have to be changes made to the traffic slowing scheme.

33.   But Coun David Lyonette said the reason the company went elsewhere was because Government legislation meant Darlington cannot compete on equal terms with other parts of Britain.

34.   In April last year the company went out of business and Sturdy was declared bankrupt.

35.   He asked Mr Major to intervene and ask the company to go to the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service to settle the dispute.

36.   Also, liberalization in finance is enabling companies to go into a whole host of new activities.

37.   An Enron spokesman did not comment on why the company is going to do so.

38.   Among the reasons for this, the company says, is that UPS contributions to multi-employer plans help finance the pensions of truckers whose companies went bankrupt under deregulation.

39.   And as a technology company goes from the garage to the corporate suite, the move is often accompanied by mutinies and executive plank-walking.

40.   And companies have gone hundreds of millions of dollars into debt to buy back their own stocks and give share prices a boost.