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).
Confirming a telephone conversation regarding a requisition for 500 gallons of Shell Aviation spirit.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27a\4\ Scan043 | |
| Date | 31th December 1932 | |
| Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ROY{Sir Henry Royce}/GEA.3/EB. 31.12.32. YNG See me Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Referring to your memo ref :- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/EM2/MS.22.12.32, requisitioning 500 gallons of Shell Aviation spirit, Messrs. Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd. write as follows :- :' "We confirm our telephone conversation of "this afternoon, when we informed you that, in "connection with your esteemed order for 500-gallons "in barrels of Shell Aviation which we are delivering "to your works on Wednesday next the 28th instant., "this Spirit will differ very considerably from the "Persian Aviation Spirit which you were in the habit "of drawing from the ex B.P. Company and also that it "will differ from the D.T.D. Spirit which you are in "the habit of purchasing from us at the present time. "Briefly, we wish to be quite clear that the Spirit we "are delivering to you on Wednesday next is ordinary "Shell Aviation". ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||