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EXHIBIT 6
TREX MEDICAL CORPORATION
81 Wyman Street
Waltham, MA 02454-9046
November 7, 2000
Dear Shareholder:
On October 25, 2000, Trex Medical Acquisition, Inc., a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Thermo Electron Corporation ("Thermo Electron"), commenced a
tender offer to acquire for $2.15 per share in cash all of the issued and
outstanding shares of common stock of Trex Medical Corporation (the "Company")
not currently owned by Thermo Electron or its direct and indirect subsidiaries
(the "Offer").
Because all of the current members of the Company's Board of Directors,
except the undersigned, are or were affiliated with Thermo Electron, the
Company's Board of Directors appointed the undersigned as a one-member Special
Committee to respond to the Offer. Based on the factors considered by the
Special Committee and set forth in the attached Solicitation/Recommendation
Statement on Schedule 14D-9 (the "Schedule 14D-9"), which was filed today with
the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Special Committee is recommending
that the shareholders accept the Offer and tender their shares of common stock
of the Company pursuant to the Offer.
The Special Committee strongly urges you to make your decision as to
whether or not to tender your shares based on all of the information available
to you, including the factors considered by the Special Committee and described
in the Schedule 14D-9, and, to that end, strongly urges that you read the
enclosed materials carefully and in their entirety.
Very truly yours,
/s/ James W. May Jr.
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Sole Member of the Special Committee of the
Board of Directors of Trex Medical Corporation
