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 a chassis purchase, personal relationships, and a decision on a tender.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 96\1\ scan0013 | |
| Date | 16th August 1938 | |
| - 2 - 345 16th August 1938. older and weaker, and would want something which would be more easy to raise. I told the "Babe" what you said about hood and springs, and he certainly agrees with you that the difficulty ought to be got over. Each / Henderson at the R.R. Company, who seems to be a very practical man, is almost in the same position as myself, having a wife and no children. He and his wife go driving about all over the place and are lovers of fresh air. He has been twentyeight years with the R.R. and he seems an extraordinarily nice individual. Praise be ~ I have paid for the Chassis this morning and it rather looks as if it will go to seed, because on the 28th I go away for a month. - The "Bombastic One" does not return until after I go, and I do not think that the Babe, and I, are really satisfied that everything will be quite as the "Bombastic One" wants us to believe. However, I may be in a pessimistic frame of mind, and tomorrow or the next day the Babe and I have got to decide whether we will go to somebody else to get the tender. Judging by the amount of trouble that he and I have taken over this it will be a thorough nuisance having to start all over again, although we should have the advantage of the "Bombastic One's" plans and specifications, although it occurs to me it might be rather | ||