Confirming telegram instructions for personnel travel and reporting on an engine rebuild.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 82\1\ scan0039 | |
| Date | 7th March 1933 | |
| X Hr-r 3a To Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} From GWH. {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} Hotel de France Chateauroux(French test region) Indre 7.3.33. We have received your telegram: SEND PATTINSON TO COLLECT PISTONS RETURN WITH PEREGRINE(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine) AND DEAN LEAVING OTHERS TO AWAIT BENSPORT(Codename for 3 1/2-litre Bentley) PART - ROBOTHAM. The meaning of the telegram was not clear we therefore wired you: TELEGRAM NOT CLEAR WHO HAS TO RETURN - HANCOCK We have since received your wire: YOU AND DEAN RETURN BY CAR PATTINSON BY TRAIN OTHERS REMAIN AT CHATEAUROUX(French test region) - ROBOTHAM. We have rebuilt the engine and shall proceed at a moderate pace. We shall probably leave here Thursday. G.W.H. | ||
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).