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P,O. Box 6500, Montreal, P.Q., Canada March 9, ]970 Dr. S.J. Green, Westminster House, 7 Mi llbank, London, S.W.I England Dear Jim, I am enclosing a me~randum entitled "Su.~gestions for Coordination of Research amongst the Research Centres of British /~erican Tobacco and Associated Companies", which I would like to have included in the agenda for the next Group Research Meeting. I might say that these thoughts were put down in a memorandum in January for internal discussion before we were aware of Bob Sanford's commentary on group research, so that our proposals were not in- fluenced in any way by Bob's memorandum. If you are in agreement, I would suggest that this memo- randum be circulated to each of the representatives attending the Conference well in advance of the Conference, in order that each person wil] have had ti~e to determine his company's policies to- wards some form of coordinated research, its desirability or un- desirability, and the extent to which his laboratory would be willing to participate. [ would think that with such preparation our discussions at the next Conference will be much ~re fruitful. Criticisms and alternative suggestions would be welcomed. Assuming that all, or most of the companies, agree in principal with our proposed approaches to coordinated research, I would suggest that the Conference take the first steps, as described in No. I in the attached memo, to determine which projects should be conducted on a coordinated basis and to lay the foundations for them to proceed. Such planning might require a day or so following the main conference. I would suggest that the nu~er of projects" to be coordinated be kept to say not more than four or six for the first year or two, in order to assess the success or othen~ise of the scheme. These projects should be chosen in such a way that they fall into different sections of the Research and Development Departments such as reconstituted tobacco, filling power improve- merit, biological assays, subjective assessment, machinery develop- ment, packagino, etc. A very tentative list of projects which ]end themselves to coordination is enclosed. BAT Industries document for Province of British Columbia 9 November 2000 BAT INDUSTRIES 00290387

Dr. S.J. Green March 9, 1970 -2 - Four additional copies of the m~morandum and of this letter are enclosed, in order to facilitate distribution to Southampton, HanW)urg, Louisville and Sydney, should you concur. Yours sincerely, R.S. Wade - MANAGER, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT RSW/sg BAT Industries document for Province of British Columbia 9 November 2000 BAT INDUSTRIES 00290388