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Letter to Mr. Marvin requesting an easy-to-remember registration number for a new car.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 96\1\  scan0017
Date  7th October 1938
  
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244/Kenton
Cheshunt

D. {John DeLooze - Company Secretary}

Posted on 8th Oct
7th October 1938.

Dear Mr. Marvin,

I have had the pleasure of writing to you every year for the last eighteen years, and sending you slips of paper for car or cars. !!

I am getting a new one for delivery on the 31st December and the object of this letter is to ask you if there is any possibility of getting a number that is easy to remember. In other words, do you start a new series of letters/or numbers at the beginning of each year. I have always been registered with you and should like to continue. - Kent.

One of my present cars has got four numbers, which I can never remember and I thought if you were going to start a new group at the beginning of this year that it might be possible for me to bespeak a number for my number plates, and send you the cheque for the tax as usual about the 26th December.

I do not know whether this is done or can be done, but I thought I would write to you not officially on the matter as you might be able to help.

Yours sincerely,

[Illegible signature]

E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} J. {Mr Johnson W.M.} Marvin Esq;.
  
  
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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