EGM - Marconi Merger Resolutions Passed

British Aerospace PLC
8 November 1999


    Not for release, publication or distribution in or into
                  Canada, Australia or Japan
                               
BRITISH AEROSPACE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY ('British Aerospace')
                               
     PROPOSED MERGER OF BRITISH AEROSPACE WITH THE MARCONI
                  ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS BUSINESS



British Aerospace announces that at the Extraordinary General
Meeting of shareholders held earlier today all resolutions
were duly passed.

The resolution to approve the proposed merger with the Marconi
Electronic Systems business (the 'proposed Merger') was
overwhelmingly passed by the shareholders of British
Aerospace.  Over 99.9 per cent. of the votes cast were in
favour of the resolution.

At separate meetings held on Wednesday, 3 November 1999, The
General Electric Company, p.l.c. also received shareholder
approvals for the proposed Merger.

Completion of the proposed Merger remains subject to, inter
alia, US anti-trust clearance.


Enquiries:

British Aerospace                               01252 373 232
Locksley Ryan
Andrew Wrathall

Dresdner Kleinwort Benson                       0171 623 8000
Tim Shacklock
Mark Hammond

Goldman Sachs                                   0171 774 1000
Simon Robertson
Simon Dingemans

Kleinwort Benson Limited ('Dresdner Kleinwort Benson') and
Goldman Sachs International ('Goldman Sachs'), which are
regulated in the UK by The Securities and Futures Authority
Limited, are acting for British Aerospace in connection with
the proposed Merger and for no-one else and will not be
responsible to anyone other than British Aerospace for
providing the protections afforded to customers of Dresdner
Kleinwort Benson and Goldman Sachs or for giving advice in
relation to the proposed Merger.

This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an
offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities.

Neither this document nor any copy of it may be taken,
transmitted or distributed, directly or indirectly, into
Canada, Australia or Japan.  Any failure to comply with this
restriction may constitute a violation of Canadian, Australian
or Japanese securities laws.

None of the British Aerospace new ordinary shares, the 7.45
per cent. Unsecured Capital Amortising Loan Stock 2000/2003 of
British Aerospace, to be issued in connection with the
proposed Merger, nor any other securities proposed to be
issued in connection with the proposed Merger will be
registered under the US Securities Act of 1933 or under the
securities laws of any state of the United States and they may
not be offered or sold in the United States absent
registration under the US Securities Act of 1933 or an
exemption from registration.  This announcement is not an
offer of any such securities for sale in the United States or
elsewhere.