Telephone message regarding prices and options for a Maybach car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 22\5\ Scan022 | |
| Date | 9th February 1931 | |
| X3531. To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re Maybach Car. Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 25/E9.2.31 We have had a telephone message from von Winterfeldt reading as follows: "You can have a Maybach 7 litre engine - 7 seater Limousine for Mks.27,000 nett - delivery Berlin, immediate delivery. "8 litre engine in 4/8 weeks @ Mks.38,400 less 10%, i.e. Mks.34,600. approx There are evidently two types. Personally I did not know this. Will you please telephone to-morrow and let me know which you think we ought to tell von Winterfeldt that we want. The nett differemce in the prices seems to be about £380. Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).