Stable triples, equivariant bundles and dimensional reduction

This is a resubmission of preprint 9401008 , which has some TeXnical errors introduced by the "reform" procedure (designed to avoid precisely these problems!). The original can be formatted by editing out the messages "%% following line cannot be broken..." at line 1674. This problem has been corrected in the current version. The content of the paper has not been changed in any way. My aplogies for any inconvenience caused. SB