ABSTRACT
Eurotunnel’s letter to its shareholders in April 1993, written jointly by chairmen Sir Alastair Morton and André Bénard, included a small paragraph on the relationship between the staff of Eurotunnel and TML. It was a fairly unremarkable statement, following as it did a now conventional moan at TML for using the opening date as a contractual weapon and a demand that TAIL cooperate with its client and design, supply, construct, install, commission and guarantee the performance of the scheme as contractually bound. The letter then said: “Fortunately, at technical level there is good cooperation between Eurotunnel staff and TML staff and suppliers, when not fettered by contractual manoeuvres.” This point was underlined by Morton in his London press conference. He went out of his way to stress that at site level the two teams were getting on just great. The problem, apparently, was the levels of management above them.
