TNAG-0636-FCO40-784-Supplies-of-electricity-for-Hong-Kong-1977 — Page 121

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.