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FM BTC HONG KONG
TO PRIORITY MODUK
TELNO U/N
OF 13093OZ AUGUST 90
INFO PRIORITY DTI
SIC
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055633
MDLIAN 2579
кр
72
m-2.11
мод село
Jellowis this 431/L
(FOR OT2/2)
RECE
5 Y 1% poc 1390
FOR GROSSMAN ARMD 3C
RACAL EQUIPMENT FOR RHK POLICE FORCE HELICOPTERS
1. AT A MEETING WITH KILVERT, DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT SUPPLIES, REPORTED IN MY TELEGRAM OF 090918Z AUG ABOUT POLICE PATROL BOATS, HE RAISED WITH ME A PROBLEM THEY ARE HAVING WITH RACAL OVER THE SUPPLY OF EQUIPMENT IN THEIR SEARCH AND RESCUE HELICOPTERS ORDERED LAST YEAR FROM SIGORSKY IN THE USA, AND NOW CLOSE TO DELIVERY. THE EQUIPMENT RELATES TO THE ABILITY TO HOVER STATIONARY OVER WATER ON AUTOPILOT. SIGORSKY HAD COMPLAINED ABOUT THE RACAL PERFORMANCE. SO HAD GEC WHO WERE SUPPLYING INTERLOCKING SENSOR EQUIPMENT. I SAID WE WOULD DO WHAT WE COULD TO HELP. I FOLLOWED UP WITH SQD LDR SHAWCROSS OF THE RHK AUXILIARY AIR FORCE HERE, WHO IS ADVISING ON THE PURCHASE, WHO SAID THEY HAD BEEN THOROUGHLY DISSATISFIED WITH RACAL THROUGHOUT WHO HAD BEEN VERY CAVALIER IN RESPONSE TO THEIR CRITICISM. THE EQUIPMENT WAS RACAL DOPLER 91. RACAL HAD HOWEVER SENT EXPERTS TO THE US IN RECENT WEEKS AND THERE WERE SIGNS IN THE LAST FEW DAYS THAT THE PROBLEMS MAY HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY OVERCOME. NEVERTHELESS SIGORSKY HAVE BEEN URGING THE HONG KONG AUTHORITIES TO SUBSTITUTE CANADIAN MARCONI EQUIPMENT AND IN THE LAST FEW DAYS SHAWCROSS SAID THEY HAD AGREED THEY WOULD MAKE THE SUBSTITUTE UNLESS RACAL PUT THINGS RIGHT AT ONCE. IT MIGHT THEREFORE BE WORTH SOMEONE CONTACTING RACAL (THE DIVISION CONCERNED IS LOCATED AT MALVERN), TO ENSURE THEY APPRECIATE THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION AND THE POOR REPUTATION THEY SEEM TO HAVE EARNED THEMSELVES ON THIS CONTRACT.
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