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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 the Vacuum Oil Company to a Rolls-Royce employee regarding travel arrangements to the United States.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 173\1\  img012
Date  21th November 1933
  
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Vacuum Oil Company, Limited

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LONDON, S.W.1.
21st November, 1933.

W.A. Robotham Esq.,
Messrs Rolls Royce Ltd.,
Derby.

Dear Sir,

We acknowledge with thanks receipt of your letter of the 20th instant, reference Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}13/KT from which we note that it is your present intention to sail for the United States on the BRITANNIC leaving England on the 30th December.

We have written today to our friends in New York giving them this information and asking them to co-operate with you in any way possible. If by any chance it becomes necessary for you to alter your plans and sail by an earlier or later boat, perhaps you will be good enough to advise us.

Wishing you a pleasant and profitable trip.

Yours faithfully,
VACUUM OIL COMPANY LIMITED.

E.C. Gordon England
Director. B.

ECGE/SJK.

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