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 from Overdrive Gears Ltd. to S. H. Grylls proposing a meeting to discuss commercial arrangements.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 136\2\ scan0052 | |
| Date | 21th February 1939 | |
| 1153 PLEASE REPLY DIRECT TO "ORMIDALE" THE AVENUE, HATCH END, MIDDX. 'PHONE: HATCH END 1221 Overdrive Gears Ltd., DIRECTORS A.C.WICKMAN. WALTER JENKS. C.D.GAY. E.J. de NORMANVILLE. 76, VICTORIA STREET, LONDON, S.W.1. TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAMS VICTORIA 6291 EN/KA 21st February, 1939. S. H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Grylls, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Mr. Grylls, Your letter of the 10th inst., for which I now thank you, was acknowledged in my absence on the Continent. If it will meet your convenience, I will come along on Thursday morning at about eleven o'clock to have a chat with you. As a matter of fact, our commercial arrangements are not yet complete as we are making the necessary enquiries from the Manufacturers' standpoint, to enable an equitable scheme to be evolved. Yours sincerely, OVERDRIVE GEARS LIMITED. Edgar de Normanville. Managing Director. [Handwritten note in red pencil across the letter]: Recd then sent on Grylls [Handwritten note in blue pencil]: W G O.K. | ||