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. WE HAVE
NO DETAILS OF SUB-CONTRACTORS BUT THEY WOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY
BE SAME AS THOSE IN GD CONTRACT.
4 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 VISITING PEKING IN SEPTEMBER WILL
INCLUDE MINING MACHINERY INTERESTS. WE WILL OF COURSE KEEP
YOU INFORMED OF ANY RELEVANT DEVELOPMENTS.