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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 discussing funeral expenses and bereavement costs following a fatal disaster.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 174\5\  img060
Date  18th July 1930
  
Copy.

The Homestead,
Nr. Portishead.

July 18/30.

Dear Mr. Nutt,

I am sorry I did not write you yesterday as promised owing to deciding to take Mrs. Halliwell on a Channel trip, she being in a very depressed state of mind.

Now with regard to the expenses referred to in my letter to Mr. Hives who was consulted on the phone as to the Rolls Royce Co. agreeing to the cost of interment in Portishead Churchyard - which was to be £31-10-0 and in which he concurred, this cost, being, as explained, subsequently waived. It was of course assumed that the Company was bearing this expense and also any expenses being the direct outcome of the unfortunate disaster in which my Son lost his life - so that I hardly understand why, as stated in your letter these expenses are to be put before Mrs. Halliwell and her brother, and become a charge on my Son's estate - unless this course is due to the method of procedure desired by the Rolls Royce Co. in making provision for Mrs. Halliwell and her Son as it is understood they are doing, but the particulars of which I have not been acquainted with.

I find that the expenditure incurred by myself, wife and two daughters has been:-

For mourning clothes. 14 : 17 : 6
Wreaths. 3 : 13 : 0
carried fwd. 18 : 10 : 6
  
  


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