Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road
The preferred loser and the winning also ran in the bidding for the Incredibly Expensive Procurement (IEP) were due to be told their fates this evening.
While Hitachi may take away the Bento-box, it won't have much in it, thanks to death by a thousand phases in the attempt to match quantities to limited finance..
And wait for the Europeans, who are shut out of the Japanese rail market, to hit Gordon Brown with the jobs card.
Any advance on 1,200?
