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).
Letter discussing the introduction of a Squadron-Leader, the potential sale of motor cars, and a visit to a strip mill.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\1\ scan0281 | |
| Date | 7th March 1941 | |
| Telephone:- 200 Connah's Quay Telegrams:- Summers, Chester. Summers file 261 (c) Shotton, Chester. 7th March, 1941. Dear Bill, I was very pleased to be able to introduce the gallant Squadron-Leader to you, and he was very interested in all he saw at Derby. He is certainly very knowledgable on the practical side of air fighting, and I hope it will be possible for him to come up to Derby again and have a bit longer there, as I know he would very much like this. Are you still wanting to get rid of one or two of your new motor cars, and if so at what figure? Presumably mine is worth considerably more now than it was when this question was last considered. Are you serious when you state that it should fetch about £1,000? Do not forget that you have still to come and see the strip mill behaving itself, and not standing idle the bulk of the time as it was when you were here before. Let me know when you are passing to or from Leyland. Yours, Richard. W.A. Robotham Esq., Rolls-Royce, DERBY. | ||