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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.

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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.
  
  


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