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acer/GROUP acer

From

E E Bridgen

Chief Executive and

Group Managing Director

2nd April, 1990.

D. H. Gillmore, Esq., CMG,

Deputy Secretary,

Hong Kong Department,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

Whitehall,

London SW1A 2AP.

Acer Group Limited

Acer House Medawar Road

The Surrey Research Park Guildford

Surrey GU2 5AR Telephone (0483) 35000 Telex 859393 ACERG G Fax (0483) 304295

Dear David,

Thank you for the

I am writing this en route from Hong Kong to Washington and following very helpful and constructive discussions with Peter Heap. introduction and I am of course copying this letter to him.

Our local intelligence suggests considerable support for the Acer/Austin bid for the Chek Lap Kok Airport. We are the only contender where a U.K. company has equality of leadership through joint venture. contractual role only).

(Our competitors are in a sub-

This, taken together with our considerably greater than that professionally responsible

planning/design/specification

at

level of local resourcing which is of course of all others, must have a quite proper and

influence

where

considerations

of the sub-contractual/supplier level are

concerned.

case

I understand that a Ministerial visit is about to take place, hence this letter. I do hope that this may be the occasion on which to lend persuasion to our as the best to support in the interests of British industry.

My colleagues in Hong Kong will be glad to give any additional information should this be required.

Yours sincerely,

E. E. Bridger

Dictated by Mr. E. E. Bridgen and signed in his absence.

Copy to: P. W. Heap, Esq., CMG

Senior Trade Commissioner Hong Kong

Acer has been created by the merger of consultants John Taylor and Freeman Fox

Registered office

Acer House. Madawar Road

The Surrey Research Park Guildford, Surrey GU2 SAR Registered No 2115472 England VAT No 394 7064 22

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