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).
Arrangements for returning a vehicle to Derby after a 10,000-mile test in France, which was hampered by spring breakages.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\4\ scan0078 | |
Date | 24th March 1925 | |
X8940 Hotel de France, CHATEAUROUX. Indre. France. AJL.I/Crn.24.3.25. To: "HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}" From: A.J.Lidsey. ----------------- I beg to acknowledge receipt of your wire, reading as follows :- NINETYEIGHT N K WITH MEN SHOULD RETURN SOON AS TEN THOUSAND MILES COMPLETED WIRE WHEN YOU EXPECT CAR TO ARRIVE AT DERBY - HIVES. to which I replied this morning :- CAR SHOULD ARRIVE DERBY MIDDAY THURSDAY - LIDSEY. We are leaving here to-morrow morning to catch the 7 p.m. boat from Boulogne, after which trip we shall have completed the 10,000 miles. If we manage to get the car on this boat, we should arrive in Derby about mid-day on Thursday. We are suffering from a severe epidemic of spring breakages. We have used up all our spare leaves, and have had to fit the only two remaining springs in order to finish our tests. A.J.LIDSEY. | ||