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Urgent memo concerning an incorrectly sized propeller shaft received from a supplier, Hardy Spicer.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 148\4\  scan0027
Date  3rd July 1933
  
To G {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} /Mt. from Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rn. {Mr Robinson} XJ84
c. to D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /BP.
c. to Roy. {Mr H. Royce - Buyer}

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rn. {Mr Robinson} 13/KT.3.7.33.

Messrs Hardy Spicer have sent us a propeller shaft in which they have made a mistake in the length. Will you please return the drive immediately to them by passenger train when they will rectify their error.

The matter is urgent as we have a car waiting for this shaft.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rn. {Mr Robinson}
  
  
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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