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Sir D Watson PS to Mr Royle
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Your telegrams nos. 1216 and 1217: Mass Transit
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1.
The Anglo/Italian bid is due to be submitted
this week with official and possibly Ministerial
explanation from the DTI.
2. The consortium have not been able to quote a
price from the start, but undertake to do so by next
April. This is because they do not want finally to
commit themselves before the surveys are complete.
But they are thinking of a price that will be fully
competitive with the Japanese. All realise (not
least because we have told them) that the lack of
certainty will give you problems, but hope that their
its
proposals can be validated on their merits in the
light of the flexible response to the Japanese.
3.
Kindersley's idea of a capital contribution
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