Routing communications to Springfield through official channels to avoid friction caused by letters sent to private addresses.
| Identifier | Morton\M7\ img044 | |
| Date | 30th November 1922 | |
| To Rg. {Mr Rowledge} Ws. Sr. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hm. {Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} Sft. {Mr Swift} Hy. {Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} HFC. HWT. EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} HP. WL. - from Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Wor {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} 3/W30/11/22. I give below copy of memo I have received from Mr. Claude Johnson. Will you please see to it that this instruction is carried out. Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} COPY. To Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} from CJ. CJ7/P29/11/22. Springfield resent letters being sent by Derby to ex-Derby officials at Springfield addressed to their private addresses. Apparently there is no such thing as secrecy(Aero Engine) in America and, if Mr.A. at Derby addresses a letter to Mr.B. at Springfield, within a week the 500 employees at Springfield know, not only that such a letter has been so addressed but the contents of it. The administration at Springfield are naturally very touchy about communications from Derby being sent to ex-Derby officials at their private addresses and consider that, if there is anything to be said, it should be said through the administration. I think we have got to support this policy. Please warn EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} and other officials who may have spared some of their staff to go to Springfield that they must avoid this cause of friction. CJ. | ||
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).