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TELEGRAM NUMBER INDUS 216 OF 7 DECEMBER

YOUR INDUS 310: EMV PRESS RELEASE.

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A. THE REFERENCE IN PARA ONE TO CONTRACTORS SHOULD READ: " ''BALFOUR BEATTY AND ITS MAIN SUB-CONTRACTORS, BICC POWER CABLES,

HAWKER SIDDELEY TRANSFORMERS AND PARSONS PEEBLES''. THIS IS ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT HAWKER SIDDELEY WILL BE THE SOLE TRANSFORMER MANUFACTURER:

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B. THE TOTAL EXPORT ORDER IS WORTH POUNDS STERLING 85 MILLION OF WHICH UK GOODS AND SERVICES ACCOUNT FOR SOME POUNDS STERLING 56 MILLION. CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS ARE NEEDED IN YOUR TITLE PARA ONE AND PARA FOUR.

C. IT IS NOT REPEAT NOT POSSIBLE TO INDICATE MAN YEARS OF WORK

BUT LOCATIONS OF PLANTS (YOUR PARA 2) CAN BE NAMED AS ERITH, PRESCOT, WALTHAMSTOW AND EDINBURGH'',

D. THE REFERENCE IN PARA ONE TO TIMESCALE OF WORK SHOULD BE

''OVER THE NEXT EIGHT YEARS''.

HEREFORD,

2. KEN ODELL ASSUMES THAT YOU WILL OBTAIN COPY OF BALFOUR

BEATTY'S OWN PRESS RELEASE DIRECT FROM HIS SECRETARY. HIS OTHER COMMENTS ON YOUR DRAFT ARE THAT THE WORD 'EXTREMELY BE

OMITTED FROM PARA 2 AND THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER TO REFER TO ''THE NEXT STAGE IN A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME RATHER THAN

ATTEMPT TO MAKE A COMPLICATED REFERENCE TO THE INTERRELATED INTERESTS OF CLP, ESSO AND KESCO. ODELL ALSO REQUESTS THAT THE BEGINNING OF PARA 4 SHOULD READ THE NEW ORDER IS A TURNKEY PACKAGE AND INCLUDES THE DESIGN, SUPPLY.