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Coded cablegram from Springfield about purchasing Wakefield Castrol and a request to standardize it.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 32\3\  Scan037
Date  27th September 1920
  
X1583
Py/1/DB {Donald Bastow - Suspensions} 27 .9.20/
To EFT from CJ.
RE WAKEFIELD CASTROL
The following cablegram has been received this morning from Springfield:-
"SOATYPAJUG ATYMO WAKEFIELD CASTROL NEWYORK PAJUL "TO STANDARDIZE - ROLLSROYCE"
which being decoded reads as follows:-
"FORTYFIVE WE CAN BUY WAKEFIELD CASTROL AT NEW YORK "ARE WE TO STANDARDIZE - ROLLSROYCE"
Please pass to the department concerned?
CJ/ Py.
RECEIVED 27 SEP 1920 U.S.A. DEPT.
SN {Mr Sanderson} SEP 27 1920 RECEIVED
W. Haires
  
  
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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