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Urgent internal memo regarding a dissatisfied customer's chassis, GNK-74, with a handwritten reply.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 47\5\  Scan134
Date  8th March 1927
  
S/W {Sales / Derby Works}
Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

URGENT
X4118
Whr. {Mr Wheeler} 12/FP. {F. Potts} 8.3.27.

Re: GNK-74 - Alberto.

The above is in Switzerland. The owner is very dissatisfied with the chassis and wants us to make some offer for taking it back in part payment for a new chassis, or exchanging it for a secondhand chassis.

I have put the matter up to C., who wishes to know whether you have available any experimental chassis which would be suitable to offer in exchange for a chassis such as the above.

Will you please make a point of replying by telegram tomorrow morning, as we are anxious to make our decision and telegraph it to Mac. {Mr Macintosh} at Geneva before he leaves there.

[Handwritten reply at bottom]
[Text crossed out]
WHEELER
NO EXPERIMENTAL
CHASSIS AVAILABLE
HIVES

[Handwritten Signature on right]
Whr {Mr Wheeler}
[Illegible Signature]
  
  
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).


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