Contract award

Petards Group PLC
05 October 2007



                 Petards Group plc ('Petards' or 'the Company')



Contract award


Petards, the AIM listed developer of advanced surveillance systems, announces
that it has been awarded a contract by train operator First Great Western for
Petards eyeTrainTM on-board digital CCTV systems.

The contract, which is worth over £1m, is for the supply of eyeTrainTM CCTV and
installation services.  The systems are to be fitted to 253 vehicles within
First Great Western's fleet of trains.  Deliveries are expected to commence
towards the end of 2007 and will continue throughout 2008.  As part of this
contract Petards will be fitting forward facing cameras and its Automatic
Passenger Counting (APC) systems both of which integrate into eyeTrain's system
architecture.

Petards Chief Executive Bill Conn said 'We are extremely pleased to have secured
another significant contract from First Group and to be working with them on
their programme to extend the coverage of on-board CCTV within their fleet.
This contract award again demonstrates Petards' customers high regard for
eyeTrainTM and our ability to provide innovative solutions for our customers,
such as the addition of APC to the eyeTrainTM range.'



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Editor's Notes:



About Petards

Petards has been providing on-board CCTV systems to the rail industry for nearly
ten years.  Its latest generation of on-board CCTV system, eyeTrainTM was
launched in 2006, is rail-proven and fully digital, with superb image quality
and terabyte storage capacity. It captures video from the seating and doorway
areas of passenger vehicles to clearly identify any offenders. eyeTrainTM also
links to other train sub-systems that can include automatic passenger counting,
alarms, entertainment, public address and information systems.  Petards APC
systems provide train operators with information to help them manage their
fleets and to assist them in reducing overcrowding by measuring passenger
movements on and off trains on a station by station basis, vehicle occupancy
levels, as well as aiding in the selection of stopping patterns and train
length.  Forward facing cameras capture the view from the driver's window - a
vital piece of evidence for investigations into trackside incidents.










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