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).
Confirmation of a verbal order for two Burgess filter elements for a car being sent for testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 152\3\ scan0195 | |
| Date | 4th June 1937 | |
| TELEPHONES: 141/2 EARL SHILTON TELEGRAMS: BURDUCTO, BARWELL STATION: HINCKLEY. L.M.S LONDON OFFICE: THAMES HOUSE, MILLBANK, S.W.1 TELEPHONE: VICTORIA 2981 TELEGRAMS: BURDUCTO, LONDON BURGESS PRODUCTS COMPANY LTD DIRECTORS: E.J.L., P.E., & K.G. COTTON ELECTRICAL & ACOUSTICAL ENGINEERS & MANUFACTURERS BARWELL LEICESTER ASSOCIATED COMPANIES: FREEPORT ILL. U.S.A. MADISON WIS. U.S.A. MOLINE ILL. U.S.A. NIAGARA FALLS, CANADA EUROPEAN AGENCIES: BERLIN PARIS VIENNA BRUSSELS ROTTERDAM BUDAPEST PRAGUE STOCKHOLM LISBON GENEVA OSLO MADRID COPENHAGEN Handwritten: 1297? Attention of Mr. G. {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} H. {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Whyman, Messrs. Rolls Royce Limited, Nightingale Road, Derby. Handwritten: File Our Ref.: R {Sir Henry Royce} /SJD. 4th. June, 1937. Dear Sirs, Confirming our telephone conversation of this afternoon, we thank you for the verbal order given to us for two Burgess filter elements, and we are immediately proceeding with the production of these. We attach hereto our formal acknowledgement of this order and would say that we anticipate having these ready for despatch to you by tomorrow's post, and will mark the parcel for your attention so that you should receive these first thing Monday morning and in good time for you to fit to the car which you are sending to the Continent for test. Yours truly, BURGESS PRODUCTS COMPANY LTD. Secretary. cc. TPP. | ||