Letter regarding the relocation of a customer's Phantom III from Paris to Biarritz for safety during the German advance in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 143\2\ scan0008 | |
| Date | 8th July 1940 | |
| 1204 Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /VA.6/JMS. 8.7.40. Messrs. Hooper & Co. Ltd., 54, St. {Capt. P. R. Strong} James's Street, LONDON, S.W. Dear Sirs, Phantom III. Mr. Hamilton Rice. Will you please inform the above owner that his car, which had been left at the French Repair Depot: 25, rue Gide, Levallois, was taken by us for safety (when the Germans were getting near to Paris) to our Biarritz Repair Shop: Garage du Parc, rue Lahouze, Biarritz, and left in charge of Mr. de Boeck. Yours faithfully, for Rolls Royce Ltd. | ||
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).