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 Colonel The Master of Sempill to W. Hives regarding a design for a 20 HP car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 6\2\ 02-page016 | |
| Date | 3rd October 1927 | |
| X523 From Colonel The Master of Sempill My Reference_______ Your Reference_______ SARDINIA HOUSE. (5&S-Fifth Floor) KINGSWAY LONDON. W.C. 2 Telephone:- HOLBORN 0991 Telegrams:- "SEMPILAERO" LONDON Date 3rd.October 1927 My dear Hives, I am wondering whether you got my letter of the 17th. September. We should like to proceed with looking into a possible design for your 20 h.p. car and should be grateful for the necessary particulars. You will quite appreciate that our designing capacity is limited and it is tending to get very much congested. Before this happens, however, I would like to get your job well advanced. Yours sincerely, W. Sempill W.Hives, Esq., Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., Nightingale Road, DERBY. | ||