Instructions for an emergency mail service using a trial car during a railway strike.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 33\1\ Scan176 | |
| Date | 21th January 1924 | |
| Instruction for Emergency Mail Service x1775 via RR TO:- Trial car one each way S/W {Sales / Derby Works} & N/S during cly Railway Strike D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /SmG/OR.21.1.24. Avo Dept. EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} Ch. Dr. H17. Hys. Em. HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} K.Sp. {Mr Spinney} Ry. Er. Estimating Dept. Myr. Wf. DP. Roy. {Mr H. Royce - Buyer} Rg. {Mr Rowledge} BB. Sft. {Mr Swift} Fhn. WV. Sdv. Vor. WH. G. {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} Cbhe. Wae. [REDACTED] "BJ" has requested that all letters to Sales should be prepared in duplicate; each duplicate copy to be marked "DUPLICATE", and sent to the Mailing Dept., in the ordinary way with the originals. In a similar manner "S" will send correspondence to us, commencing to-day. All memos sent to Conduit Street by the bag this morning should be duplicated, and the duplicate copies handed to Mailing Dept. where they will be suitably dealt with. These duplicate copies will be conveyed from Derby to London by a Trials Car each morning. The return journey will be made from "S" to "W", with "S" duplicate correspondence, leaving Conduit Street 3.p.m. daily. Please instruct your department accordingly. Sn. {Mr Sanderson} Smyth | ||
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).