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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 describing an instructor's job at No. 12 E.F.T.S. RAF Prestwick.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 121\1\  scan0180
Date  8th December 1939
  
1029
8-12-1939

No 12 E.F.T.S.
R.A.F.
Prestwick

Dear Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer},

I have got an instructing job up here. It's a soft kind of job for war, apart from the usual troubles of crowded aerodrome, boggy patches, orderly officer duty and so on. Also flying small open aeroplanes without heaters in Scotland in winter is not my first choice of a job. However we are
  
  


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