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1 going to suggest that there was other equipment -- please
2 listen to me -- if you are going to suggest there was other
3 equipment available which Sun Valley should have used
4 earlier, you should put what the equipment is and where it
5 was manufactured and when, so that you can challenge
6 Dr. Pattison about it.
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8 MS. STEEL: Well, I do suggest that because Dr. Gregory put it
9 in his report.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which machinery do you say.?
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13 MS. STEEL: I am sure Dr. Gregory would not have recommended
14 something that was not available.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It was not put to him that he had in mind a
17 particular manufacturer of apparatus which was available.
18 If it had been suggested we would have known that it was
19 this particular system manufactured by this particular
20 person. You could have been asking why Sun Valley did not
21 go to that. As far as I am concerned, Dr. Gregory, who is
22 a man who appears generally accepted to be at the top of
23 his really quite specialised field, thought that this was a
24 good idea. But whether he had a particular piece of
25 apparatus in mind or not manufactured by a particular
26 manufacturer, I do not know. I cannot assume that he did
27 have.
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29 Did Dr. Gregory when he made the recommendations say: If
30 you go to so and so in Birmingham or whatever you will find
31 just what you need?
32 A. No. This was the problem. There was not any
33 particular machine that he could recommend that would
34 actually ideally suit what he was describing. Therefore,
35 it had to be developed by somebody.
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37 MS. STEEL: It would be quite simple for somebody with the
38 knowledge of electrics to develop a ramp to stick in front
39 of the water bath, would it not?
40 A. Well, it is very easy for you to speculate how easy it
41 is. I can assure you in reality that is not so.
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43 Q. Well, I suggest that because it did not affect your profits
44 you were not in any hurry to chase this up?
45 A. You can suggest what you like. I do not agree with
46 you.
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48 MR. MORRIS: Can I go back to the last of the French documents?
49 It is pink volume IX, new tab 6A. I hope that is the right
50 place, pink volume IX, new tab 6A section B.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have a tab 6.
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54 MR. RAMPTON: I think I know what Mr. Morris is referring to.
55 I put them behind the French documents, they are not French
56 documents at all. As I said at the time, these are
57 documents from Sun Valley at Hereford and these come before
58 one gets to the processing part of the operation. They
59 look like that.
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