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).
Requesting to trace the origin of rumours about test cars in France and to restrict testing to country districts.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 72\4\ scan0192 | |
Date | 1st July 1924 | |
Y9770 To Mr. from BJ. Copy to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} BJ2/H1.7.24. Re Memo. from Paris, re Super-Rolls: Th/JD{J. Draper - Frames}26/Do178/28.6.24. Will you please try to trace the originof the rumour mentioned in the enclosed copy of memorandum from Paris? Have any of our test cars been in or near Paris, or any of the principal downs or watering places in France? It is of the utmost importance that the test should be restricted to only the country districts, and that we should do everything possible to avoid such rumours. B.J. | ||