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HONG KONG POWER STATION PROJECT.

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1. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT I TODAY RECEIVED AN UNEXPECTED CALL FROM

W.D. COOTES, COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR OF A. REYROLLE. CO. MR COOTES WHO

WAS ABOUT TO COMPLETE A SHORT VISIT TO HONG KONG HAD HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH CLPANDD CALLED TO EXPRESS CONCERN THAT REYROLLE DID NOT APPEAR

TO HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN OUR PACKAGE PROPOSALS.

2. COOTES ARGUED THAT REYROLLE'S REPUTATION FOR THE SUPPLY OF THE

400 K.V SWITCHGEAR REQUIRED FOR THE NEW PROJECT WAS SECOND TO NONE

AND HE CLAIMED THAT SENIOR MEMBERS OF CLP, INCLUDING DEAN BARRETT,

HAD TOLD HIM THAT CLP'S ENGINEERS WOULD LOOK ASKANCE AT A BRITISH

PACKAGE WHICH DID NOT INCLUDE THE OFFER OF REYROLLE SWITCHGEAR. HE

CLAIMED THAT HIS MANAGING DIRECTOR, DUNCAN MACDONALD AND SIR JAMES

WOODESON HAD CALLED ON LIPPITT AND SIR PETER CAREY ON 25 AUGUST TO

ENQUIRE ABOUT THE BRITISH PACKAGE OF WHICH REYROLLE HAD ONLY BECOME

AWARE ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST.

3. I TOOK THE LINE THAT THE CO-ORDINATION OF THE PACKAGE WAS BEING

UNDERTAKEN BY THE DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND THAT IT WAS FOR

REYROLLE TO MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS IN LONDON. AS I UNDERSTAND IIT CLP/PEPCO WERE CONTENT TO AWAIT OUR PROPOSALS ALTHOUGH THEY OF COURSE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO COMMENT ON OR CHALLENGE PARTS OF

THE PACKAGE. COOTES SAID THAT HE WOULD BE FOLLOWING THE MATTER

UP IN LONDON AND REQUESTED ME TO REPORT CLP'S CONCERN ABOUT THE POSSIBLE EXCLUSION OF REYROLLE'S SWITCHGEAR.

4. 1 SUBSEQUENTLY SPOKE TO DEAN BARRETT, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF CLP WHO CONELEMED MY UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR ATTITUDE AND DEWEED THAT