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Announcing a revision to the departmental numbering system.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 142\1\  scan0042
Date  24th November 1937
  
To all Officials, Superintendents and Foremen.

PM
1204
Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Ryc.4/T24.11.37.

DEPARTMENTAL NUMBERS.
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The present numbering of Departments will be revised as from Saturday noon 27th November 1937.

The new Departmental numbers will be used on all Bonus Cards, Millwrights Requisitions and wherever a Department has to be identified.

Broadly the numbering is as follows:-

Departments 100 to 199. Chassis Departments.
" 200 to 299. Aero "
" 300 to 399 Common "
" 400 to 499 Indirect "

The new Departmental numbers are as shown on the attached sheets.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Ryc.
  
  
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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