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TO IMMEDIATE BTC HONG KONG TELNO INDUS 262 OF 18 OCTOBER.
FOR HAVELOCK FROM KESTEN.
CEGE.
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1. AS YOU KNOW I ATTENDED THE CEGB BEI REVIEW MEETING THIS MORNING ON YOUR BEHALF. IN BAKER'S ABSENCE ESLEWHERE SNELL CHAIRED,
CEG BARNWOOD WERE ABSENT FOR SOME UNEXPLAINED ( TO ANYONE) REASON. THE FOLLOWING POINTS WERE MADE
RECRUITMENT.
2. THE POWER STATION WOULD INVOLVE SECONDING MEN FOR THREE- YEAR PERIODS: DESPITE CEGB POLICY, BEI WOULD EXPECT TO MEET THIS. THIS IS A LONGER TERM COMPLICATION THAT THEY ARE ANTICIPATING NOW.
STAFF LEVELS.
3. THE BEI/CLP CONTRACT ON THE POWER STATION CALLED FOR 21 MEN TO BE PROVIDED FOR 530 MAN-HOURS IN TOTO. IN FACT 24 MEN WILL BE PROVIDED, CLP HAVING ASKED, AND AGREED TO PAY, FOR THE EXTRA THREE.
PROJECT PROGRAMME.
4. CEGB ARE CONCERNED THAT CLP HAS STILL NOT YET PRODUCED THEIR OVERALL PROJECT PROGRAMME, BEI'S WORK MAY CONSEQUENTLY BE DELAYED AND THEY ARE PERFORCE HAVING TO WORK TO GEC'S PROGRAMME, PRIVATELY SNELL EXPRESSED DOUBTS ABOUT THE DESCRIPTION OF PROGRESS GIVEN BY HERNEN IN HIS MONTHLY REPORT (HK INDUS 139 OF 3 OCTOBER REFERS).
SIMULATOR.
5. CEGB ARE EXTREMELY CONCERNED THAT THE SIMULATOR MAY BE DELAYED BECAUSE OF CLP'S FAILURE TO PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY INFORMATION ON BASIC LAYOUT, VDUS, CONTROL AND INSTRUMENTATION ETC, AS SET OUT IN TELEX OF 28 SEPTEMBER FROM HACKETT AT BARNWOOD TO BROOKS.
6. IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT HERNEN AND CLP'S CONTROL AND INSTRUMENT- ATION ENGINEER WILL BE IN UK END OCTOBER ONWARDS, CEGB EXPECT THAT HE WILL WANT TO MEET WITH THEM AND HOPE THAT HE WILL BE EMPOWERED TO TAKE DECISIONS.
7. THE SIMULATOR PROGRAMME THAT BEI PROPOSED INCLUDED A NUMBER OF KEY DATES BY WHICH THEY NEEDED CERTAIN INFORMATION AND THEY BELIEVE THAT IF THEY HAVE NO ANSWERS FROM CLP BY 1 DECEMBER THEY WILL BE OBLIGED, IN ORDER TO PROTECT THEMSELVES UNDER THEIR CONTRACT WITH CLP, TO PROCEED ON THE BASIS OF CEGB EXPERIENCE OF EXISTING 350 MW STATIONS IN UK.
STATUS OF MEETINGS,
8. YOU ARE AWARE OF STONE'S CONCERN THAT BEI MIGHT BE MEETING WITH MANUFACTURERS AND PLAYING A ROLE FOR WHICH THEY ARE NOT CONTRACTED. SNELL AGREED TO CONSIDER WITH WEAVING ON HIS RETURN WHETHER THEY OUGHT AGAIN TO WRITE TO STONES TO REASSURE HIM.
TRANSMISSION SYSTEM.
9. SNELL CONFIRMED THAT IT HAD BEEN AGREED THAT THERE WILL BE A TEAM LEADER FOR THE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, ALTHOUGH NO-ONE HAS YET BEEN APPOINTED.
PAYMENTS (FOR THORNTON)
10. SINCE DAVIS-JONES WAS PRESENT, I RAISED THE SUBJECT OF OUR PAYMENTS TO BET UNDER 5 APRIL AGREEMENT. WE AGREED THAT (A) THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO TRY TO INVOICE US MONTHLY AND (B) DAVIS-JONES WOULD CONTACT ME SEPARATELY TO DISCUSS WHETHER BEI MIGHT BE PREPARED TO VARY THE AGREEMENT TO REMOVE OBLIGATIONS (1) FOR US BOTH TO AGREE ON ANY DISCREPANCIES AND (11) FOR DOI TO PAY WITHIN THREE WEEKS OF RECEIPT OF INVOICES. HE WAS SYMPATHETIC AS THIS WAS MORE SEVERE THAN USUAL BEI PRACTICE.
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