Draft indemnity letter from Mr and Mrs. Butler regarding a fatal accident involving their son.
| Identifier | Morton\M10\ img075 | |
| Date | 14th May 1928 | |
| [Typed Text] Draft of a letter to be written by Mr and Mrs.Butler to Rolls-Royce Limited. [Handwritten Text] 62 Grove Street Derby 14th May 1928 To Messrs Rolls Royce Ltd Derby Dear Sirs, [Typed Text] In consideration of your paying to us the sum of £1000.0.0. being an amount which Rolls-Royce Limited have agreed to pay to us in respect of a fatal accident to our Son Edward Butler which occurred at or near Amiens in France on the twenty-first day of March 1928 notwithstanding that we have not yet obtained Probate of his Will, we agree to indemnify Rolls-Royce Limited against any claims which may here-after be made upon them arising out of or in respect of the said fatal accident. [Handwritten Text] Yours faithfully [Typed Text] Dated this __ day of __ 1928. [Handwritten Notes at bottom] at his death he was 25 yrs of age unmarried He had two brothers & a sister - " " no dependants was a passenger in 15 EX being driven by C W Briggs [Handwritten Note in left margin] see Frames of 20 - 6 - 5 [Handwritten Note in right margin] Letter Corrected | ||
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).