Letter from Exide Batteries regarding temporary arrangements for supplying batteries to Paris due to an import quota.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 164\4\ img094 | |
| Date | 3rd December 1932 | |
| X6122 ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY Exide BATTERIES (PROPRIETORS THE CHLORIDE ELECTRICAL STORAGE COMPANY LIMITED) TELEGRAMS: CHLORIDIC SOWEST LONDON TELEPHONES: VICTORIA 6308 (6 LINES) CABLES: CHLORIDIC LONDON CODES: BENTLEYS LIEBERS A.I. A.B.C.(4TH & 5TH EDITIONS) EXPORT DEPARTMENT, REGISTERED OFFICES & WORKS CLIFTON JUNCTION, Nr MANCHESTER 137, VICTORIA STREET, LONDON, S.W.1. OUR REFERENCE TD/EAS 3rd December 1932. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. WST RECEIVED Dear Sirs, Your Ref. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst.9/AD. With reference to your letter of the 30th ultimo, and the reply forwarded to you by our Chief Engineer, Mr. E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} C. McKinnon, you will find upon referring to your friends in Paris that we have now been able to make temporary arrangements to take care of their requirements to the end of the present year, when the Import Quota should be re-opened. If you will then kindly arrange for your friends in Paris to pass an official order to: Batteries Exide, S.A., 133 (nouveau) Boulevard Jean Jaures, Clichy, (Seine), France, covering their probable requirements, we will arrange to include the material in the first shipment. If we can be of any further assistance, kindly let us know. Yours faithfully, FOR THE CHLORIDE ELECTRICAL STORAGE CO. LTD. W. H. {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} DENBY. EXPORT MANAGER. Per | ||
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).