Correspondence, draft speeches and notes relating to Peking for the British Industry Technology Exhibition

Original folder titled 'Peking Visit 1973' containing correspondence, draft speeches and notes relating to the British Technological Industrial Exhibition held in Peking between 26th March - 7 April 1973. Contains a draft speech by Kenneth Cantlie on the recent development on locomotive design, correspondence with Mr Hsia Yun-Fu (the Embassy of China, London) and Mo Tsen-Huei (Ministry of Communications, Peking) regarding the Peking Exhibition and Kenneth Cantlie's presentation; correspondence with the Railway Industry Association (former LMA) regarding the Chinese Railway Mission to the UK; Sino-British Trade Council meeting minutes; correspondence with George Carpenter, Kenneth Cantlie's business partner through Verity-Orient LTd. relating to the Peking Exhibition, Kenneth Cantlie's lecture, Giesl ejectors and companies Plasser and Theurer and Wickham they were representing (1973); correspondence and report on railway sleepers in China for Costain Concrete Co.; letter from Madame Soon Ling Ching, wife of Sun Yat-Sen (1973); receipts related to Kenneth Cantlie's expenses; copies of Chinese language translation tables for commonly used phrases and names.

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Extent:
1 file with approx. 100 pages
Identifier:
CANT/1/76
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