Last checked at 16 Oct 2009 07:00
Petards Group plc ("Petards" or "the Company")
Contract award
Petards, the AIM quoted developer of advanced security and surveillance systems, announces that it has been awarded a contract to supply Alstom Ferroviaria S.p.A of Italy ("Alstom") with Petards eyeTrain® on-board digital CCTV systems for new Pendolino trains.
Alstom are supplying Angel Trains with four new 9-car Pendolino trains and 70 additional cars to lengthen these and 31 of the existing trains for use on the West Coast Main Line operated by Virgin Trains. Petards eyeTrain® on-board digital CCTV is already successfully deployed on the West Coast Main Line's existing fleet and Alstom have chosen to fit the new vehicles to be supplied with Petards eyeTrain®.
The contract is worth approximately £0.5m and deliveries, which are expected to commence in December this year, will be made over a three year period.
Commenting on the awards, Petards Chief Executive Bill Conn said "We are extremely happy to be working again with Alstom on a project which also involves two of our other key customers; Angel Trains and Virgin Trains.
The West Coast Main Line is the UK's busiest mainline railway and it is pleasing that Petards' solutions have again been to provide passengers with a safer and more secure environment in which to travel."
For further information:
| Petards Group plc | www.petards.com |
| Bill Conn, Chief Executive Andy Wonnacott, Finance Director | Tel: 0191 420 3000 |
| Collins Stewart Europe Limited | |
| Piers Coombs, Stewart Wallace | Tel: 020 7523 8350 |
| Walbrook PR Limited | Tel: 020 7933 8787 |
| Paul McManus | Mob: 07980 541 893 |
| paul.mcmanus@walbrookpr.com |
Editor's Notes:
About Petards
Petards has been providing on-board CCTV systems to the rail industry for a decade. Its latest generation of on-board CCTV system, eyeTrain®, is rail-proven and fully digital, with superb image quality and terabyte storage capacity. It captures video from the seating and doorway areas of passenger vehicles to clearly identify any offenders. eyeTrain® also links to other train sub-systems that can include automatic passenger counting, alarms, entertainment, public address and information systems. Forward facing cameras can be added to capture the view from the driver's window - a vital piece of evidence for investigations into trackside incidents.