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).
Thank you letter from Reuters regarding a trip, discussing the car, hospitality and journalistic objectivity.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\3\ scan0154 | |
| Date | 6th February 1939 | |
| TELEPHONE: CENTRAL 6060. 1379 Reuters Limited. 9, Carmelite Street, Thames Embankment, London, E.C.4. Publicity file Ch P ALL COMMUNICATIONS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE MANAGING DIRECTOR. PLEASE MARK REPLY: Personal 6/2/39 Noted #S A.W.Robotham Esq Experimental Department Rolls Royce Ltd DERBY Dear Robotham, I feel I must drop you a line to thank you cordially for the wonderful trip Messrs Rolls Royce have just given me.The whole thing could not have been more enjoyable.Everything about the whole trip was done in true Rolls Royce fashion,that is to say everything was of the best.The car was superb,the company could not have been better,and the hospitality was tremendous. Indeed so generous were you that I feel I have not been able to do half enough for you in return. You will however appreciate that as a News Agency,famed for its objectiveness,Reuters could not act as a publicity agent.I could not even do for you what Dugdale as a correspondent of a motoring paper was able to do. | ||