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CIDENTIAL

NEI Power Engineering Ltd., Saltmeadows Road,

Gateshead, Tyne & Wear NE8 1YZ

VISIT OF THE RT. HON. MRS. MARGARET THATCHER, MP, PRIME MINISTER

Friday 12th March 1982

PRELIMINARY BRIEF

Present from NEI Main Board

In attendance

Present from NEI Power Engineering Ltd.

D. (Duncan) McDonald, Chairman & Chief Executive

T. (Terry) Harrison, Managing Director, UK Operations

J.G. (Graeme) Anderson, Managing Director

UK Mechanical Engineering.

J.W.G. (Gerry) James, Head of Information Services

D.A. (Don) James, Managing Director

P.R. (Paul) Whitehouse, Director, Nuclear (AGR) Unit.

E. (Eddie) Evans, Director, Production Unit

NEI

Northern Engineering Industries Ltd., with headquarters and five of its twelve UK

trading companies on Tyneside, operates worldwide in mechanical, electrical, combustion and structural engineering.

Its turnover exceeds £700 million and it exports at a rate of more than £200 million

per year.

The

NEI employs over 29,000 people in the United Kingdom and over 7,000 overseas. group's principal sectors of activity are power generation, industrial power and process plant, electrical plant and controls and mechanical handling plant, and interests in advanced light electronics are developing with the acquisition of organisations overseas, principally in North America (Ferranti-Packard, Extel Corporation, International Power Machines).

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