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TO IMMEDIATE DO I TELNO INDUS 171 OF 26 OCTOBER 1978.

FOR LIPPITT FROM THORNTON.

FOLLOWING ARE POINTS MADE BY SIR LAWRENCE KADOORIE AT MEETING

ON 24 OCTOBER WITH HAVELOCK AND STONES.

TRANSMISSION SYSTEM.

1. SIR LAWRENCE WAS DISMAYED AT THE DISCREPANCY. HE HAD A FEELING

BALFOUR BEATTY HAD NOT TRULY FOLLOWED GEC'S LEAD: THEY HAD PERHAPS

NOT PUT THEIR TOP MEN ON THE PROJECT, AND HAD TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF DOI. HE REALISED THE DEPARTMENT AND JOHN LIPPITT PERSONALLY HAD MADE EVERY EFFORT. WHILE HE RECOGNISED THAT K AND D HAD BEEN ENGAGED, HE WONDERED WHETHER THEY HAD BEEN USED DIRECTLY OR HAD NOT SOMEHOW BEEN TOO MUCH UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF BALFOUR BEATTY.

2. CLP AND DOI HAD A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, WHICH SIR LAWRENCE WAS VERY ANXIOUS TO KEEP: THE DEPARTMENT WAS NEARER TO HIS SIDE THAN TO THE UK CONTRACTORS. HE WAS EMPHATICALLY NOT ACCUSING DOI OF TRYING ON HIM WHAT HE THOUGHT BB WERE TRYING ON THE. DEPARTMENT.

3. SIR LAWRENCE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED BY HIS BOARD NOT TO DO ÄNYTHING