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).
Request to borrow lantern slides or photographs of the 'R' type engine for a presentation on the 'Blue-Bird'.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 155\1\ scan0130 | |
| Date | 20th March 1934 | |
| [Handwritten at top right: 8788] CARS DRIVEN BY OUR STAFF AT CUSTOMERS' OWN RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY. THOMSON & TAYLOR (BROOKLANDS) LTD. AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS GARAGE AND SHOWROOMS— PORTSMOUTH ROAD, COBHAM, SURREY. TELEPHONE: COBHAM 85. WORKS AND RACING STABLES— BROOKLANDS TRACK, BYFLEET, SURREY. TELEPHONE: BYFLEET 520 & 521 LONDON OFFICE— 30, SEATON STREET, N.W.1. DIRECTORS: KENNETH J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} THOMSON. G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} K.{Mr Kilner} TAYLOR. REID A.{Mr Adams} RAILTON. W. G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} HAYWOOD. D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} KENNEDY. S. D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} WHIDDINGTON. PLEASE REPLY TO: BROOKLANDS TRACK. YOUR REF.................. OUR REF........52/25. RAR/MVG. 20th March, 1934. A.C. Lovesey, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Limited, Derby. Dear Mr. Lovesey, I clean forgot when I was at Derby last Friday to ask you whether there was in existence such a thing as a lantern slide or slides showing the "R" type engine. I am reading a paper on the "Blue-Bird" at Leeds next Monday and I have succeeded in getting several slides of the Napier engine, and should naturally like to include the other as well. I wonder if you would be good enough to drop me a line by return and let me know about this and whether I could borrow them if they are in existence. Alternatively perhaps you could let me have a photograph or two which I could make a slide from. If this is necessary, [handwritten: turn] then time is rather short, so perhaps you could send me a copy with your reply, that is if your Company have no objection to their use in this manner. With best wishes, Yours sincerely, [Signature: Reid A Railton] | ||