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Heng. Kay.
2 ON THE POWER STATION PROJECT WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO PUT SPECIFIC PROPOSALS TO SIR LAWRENCE KADOORIE VERY SOON.
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ON THE EXPORT OF MINING MACHINERY, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION MIGHT BE HELPFUL TO CLP. THE £20 MILLION EXPORTS COMPRISED TWO CONTRACTS PLACED BY THE CHINESE NATIONAL TECHNICAL IMPORT CORPORATION IN 1973 FOR TOTAL OF 21 COMPLETE SETS OF LONGWALL COAL FACE MACHINERY. MAIN CONTRACTORS WERE DOWTY (13 SETS)
AND GULLICK DOBSON (8 SETS). BOTH CONTRACT WERE FIXED PRICE BASIS. GULLICK DOBSON (GD) CONTRACT WAS WORTH TOTAL £5.3m. GD SUPPLIED THE 300 TON YIELD HYDRAULIC ROOF SUPPORTS AND SUB-CONTRACTORS SUPPLIED COAL CUTTING EQUIPMENT (ANDERSON MAVOR) AND ELECTRICAL AND CONTROL EQUIPMENT (BALDWIN & FRANCIS, BICC, BRUSH TRANSFORMERS, JOHN DAVIES DERBY). DOWTY CONTRACT WAS WORTH TOTAL £14.5M. SUB- CONTRACTORS WERE ALMOST CERTAINLY SAME AS THOSE IN GD CONTRACT.
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WE ARE ENCOURAGING THE MAIN COMPANIES TO PURSUE THE POSSIBILITIES OF FURTHER EXPORTS TO CHINA ON BASIS OF PREVIOUS ORDERS. A SINO-BRITISH TRADE COUNCIL TRADE DELEGATION WHICH IS VISITNG PEKING IN SEPTEMBER WILL INCLUDE MINING MACHINERY INTERESTS. IN ADDITION A DELEGATION FROM CHINA HAS BEEN INVITED TO COME TO UK IN OCTOBER AT TIME OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF MINING EQUIPMENT.
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