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Gateshead’s Petards lands £1.2m Bombardier contract

Petards, the Gateshead-based developer of security and surveillance systems, has been awarded a further contract to supply Bombardier Transportation with PetardseyeTrain systems.

The new contract, which is worth in excess of £1.2 million, is for the supply of eyeTrain saloon and Driver Only Operation (DOO) systems to be fitted to four-car ELECTROSTAR Electrical Multiple Unit (EMU) trains to be built by Bombardier.

Petards’ deliveries are anticipated to commence during the latter part 2016 and to be completed in 2017.

Commenting, Petards Chairman Raschid Abdullah said: “We are delighted that Petards’ eyeTrainsystems continue to be the system of choice for fitment to Bombardier’s ELECTROSTAR trains.

“This order adds to the hundreds of ELECTROSTAR vehicles for which eyeTrain systems have previously been specified and further bolsters the Group’s present order book for delivery in 2017.”

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