The thing that struck me as really odd about this is Malcolm asks rhetorically
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if these sets really were going to be produced free of charge, why have I been approached as a possible supplier?
which seems to imply that he believes that the sets were not going to be produced, or at least not produced free of charge. However, he then says that he has spoken to Mr Wyngaarden, MD at Holloid, who says that the problem is that Holloid require some cash to see the project through to completion. Unless Malcolm is alleging that Holloid
always wanted some sort of payment for the project - which seems unlikely as surely they would have insisted on a written contract in that case - then it appears that the sets were always planned to be produced FOC, but that Holloid ran into financial problems or encountered additional costs that they had not budgeted for and are not prepared to cover themselves.
Why was Malcolm approached as a possible supplier? I would imagine that the answer to that is simple. The ECF didn't / don't know if Holloid are going to produce the sets and if Holloid eventually do produce the sets the ECF don't know what it might cost them. It seems that the ECF is doing something sensible and seeking a contingency plan.
I'd still like to hear what Mr Wyngaarden said to Andrew Martin prior to Andrew's resignation.
Ernie thinks we need another meeting if the ECF are to finance Holloid. John Philpot is better placed than me to advise but given that council authorised the board to borrow £100,000 to finance the project I would have thought that the ECF could use that loan facility without the need for another EGM.
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